A new discovery may explain why so many people abandon cholesterol-lowering statins because of muscle pain and weakness.

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

For decades, statins have been the quiet workhorses of cardiology, cutting heart attack and stroke risk for millions while leaving a stubborn puzzle unsolved: why do some patients feel their muscles ...

- Muscle cells, also known as myocytes, are specialized cells designed for contraction and force production. Skeletal Muscle Cells: These cells are long, cylindrical, and have a striated (or striped) ...

When a muscle contracts, the parts of a sarcomere "shorten" and come closer together. Each cardiac muscle cell can have over 5,000 sarcomeres, which compounds both the shortening and relaxation events ...

For years, people taking one of the world’s most common heart drugs have described the same nagging side effect: sore, aching muscles that can be bad enough to make them stop treatment. Now ...

The population across developed countries is getting older and the associated frailty and debilitation are becoming major health problems. This gradual muscle loss is accelerated by the poor capacity ...