The greatest reduction in skeletal muscle mass was in the lower extremities, a new report shows. Low skeletal muscle mass may be an early manifestation of fabry disease (FD), according to a new report ...

No one likes to be told that they are behind. No one likes to hear that they have lost something. And yet, today, we hear it all the time: that kids have lost learning, that they may never catch up, ...

FARGO - Here's a New Year's resolution, parents. Keep an eye out for W-sitting. Child development specialists, including physical and occupational therapists, warn against children regularly sitting ...

An Australian-first biobank will be established to improve and discover new treatments for children with genetic muscle diseases. These diseases, spanning dystrophies and myopathies, are characterised ...

Leveraging artificial intelligence and the largest pediatric brain MRI dataset to date, researchers have now developed a growth chart for tracking muscle mass in growing children. The new study led by ...

New research from the Exercise Medicine Research Institute at Edith Cowan University (ECU) has highlighted that children undergoing cancer treatment often lose skeletal muscle at a time when they ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe rare genetic condition that mainly affects young boys, with symptoms usually appearing between the ages of 2 and 5. Over time, their muscles gradually weaken, ...