Muscle in Medical News

Bally Total Fitness Flexes Fundraising Muscle to Fight ALS

CHICAGO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Last year, Bally Total Fitness members raised over $230,000 for Augie's Quest, the fast-track research arm of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). As one of the leading fundraising donors in 2008, Bally is dedicated to beating the previous goal ...

Gene Mutation Is Linked to Heart Muscle Disease

Findings shed light on understanding of dilated cardiomyopathy WEDNESDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- Gene mutations that cause heart muscle disease and chronic heart failure in some children and adults with dilated cardiomyopathy have been identified by researchers. Dilated cardiom...

Max Muscle Sports Nutrition Answers Call For Safe Science-Based Weight Loss

Max De-Lite is based in Science & Fact in an industry borne of hype Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 14, 2009 -- Max Muscle Sports Nutrition announces a new weight loss formula that combines the finest proven weight loss and fat burning ingredients available, scientific...

Statins May Cause Muscle Damage in Some Patients

People with serious muscle aches showed muscle fiber damage even after halting drugs, researchers say MONDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- Statins, medications widely used to lower cholesterol, may cause structural damage to the muscles of people experiencing muscle aches and weakness, a...

Growth Hormone May Build Muscle in Older Men

Finding shows promise for treating age-related loss of strength, researchers say WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly men who exercised and received the growth hormone known as "mechano growth factor" (MGF) showed increased muscle mass, according to a British study. The re...

Elite Athletes Use Active Recovery Muscle Stimulator to Prevent Muscle Soreness After Exercise

The Active Recovery program uses Compex Sport electrostimulation therapy to help athletes' muscles recover faster. Carlsbad, CA (PRWEB) June 28, 2009 -- Muscle soreness plagues almost every athlete after an intense workout and can sideline an athlete for days after a co...

Chocolate Milk's 'Natural' Muscle Recovery Benefits Match or May Even Surpass a Specially Designed Carbohydrate Sports Drink

New Study Finds Lowfat Chocolate Milk is Effective Post-Exercise Recovery Aid For Soccer Players SEATTLE, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Soccer players and exercise enthusiasts now have another reason to reach for lowfat chocolate milk after a hard workout, suggests a new study fr...

Max Muscle Sports Nutrition Releases The Truth About Creatine

Recent news on recalls, bans and non-scientific claims have consumers seeking supplements and products based on scientific evidence, not marketing muscle or claims. CX3, Max Muscle Sports Nutrition's new Scientifically Engineered Creatine, sets the new standard in consumer awareness and trust. ...

Vaccine slows progression of skeletal muscle disorder

Irvine, Calif., May 13, 2009 A potential vaccine for Alzheimer's disease also has been shown in mice to slow the weakening of muscles associated with inclusion body myositis, a disorder that affects the elderly. The finding brings new hope for IBM patients with weakness, inflammation or atroph...

Max Muscle Sports Nutrition Offers Support for Hydroxycut Recall

Max Muscle Sports Nutrition's newest product innovation is L-Tox, for advanced liver support. L-Tox was formulated to help stimulate maximum liver detoxification along with protective and regenerative factors. Anaheim, California (PRWEB) May 6, 2009 - The U.S. Food and ...

The Pill May Limit Muscle Gains in Women

But experts say results from the small study are no reason to stop birth control FRIDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- Lower hormone levels in women who exercise regularly and take birth-control pills may result in less muscle mass increases, a new study suggests. But the muscle-mass...

Three Medical Centers Awarded Funds to Study Generation of Cardiac Muscle Cells

DALLAS, April 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Heart Association, with support from the Jon Holden DeHaan Foundation, has awarded funding for three research centers to study the development and mechanisms of generating new cardiac muscle cells. Over the next four year, the centers will ...

Max Muscle Sports Nutrition Franchising Draws Record Interest

Concept continues to prove health and fitness never goes out of style with record sales growth ANAHEIM, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- 46 consecutive months of same store sales growth has catapulted Anaheim, California-based Max Muscle Sports Nutrition (MMSN) into the spotlight as America...

Skin Cells Turned Into Working Heart Muscle

Research could lead to new treatments for organ's diseases that have genetic cause THURSDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- It may be possible to use skin cells to create stem cells that can repair damaged hearts, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report. In late 2007,...

Growth hormone treatment after weight loss surgery prevents loss of muscle mass

Chevy Chase, MD Growth hormone treatment for six months after weight loss surgery reduces patients' losses in lean body mass and skeletal muscle mass, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ( JCEM ). Weight l...

Vitamin D tied to muscle power in adolescent girls

Chevy Chase, MDVitamin D is significantly associated with muscle power and force in adolescent girls, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ( JCEM ). Although vitamin D is naturally produced in the body thro...

Quadra Cuts the Official Weight Loss Product of Max Muscle Sports Nutrition $25,000 MaxFormation Life Challenge

Weight Loss, Proper Nutrition, and Fitness now no longer just a New Year's Resolution as the $25,000 Max Muscle MaxFormation Life Challenge Energizes a Nation at www.MaxMuscle.com/max-formation/ . Anaheim, CA (PRWEB) February 2, 2009 -- Quadra Cuts, one of the most ant...

Unique skeletal muscle design contributes to spine stability

The novel design of a deep muscle along the spinal column called the multifidus muscle may in fact be key to spinal support and a healthy back, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Their findings about the potentially important "scaffolding" role...

Adding Eccentric Resistance Training Improves Muscle Strength Following ACL Surgery

Full recovery from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction can be difficult, but a review of several studies from the University of Utah published in the inaugural edition of Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach highlights how the use of eccentric resistance training may improve...

Max Muscle Sports Nutrition Offers $25,000 Reward For Your New Years Resolution

Losing Weight, America's Most Popular New Year's Resolution, Now Worth Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars at www.MaxMuscle.com/max-formation/ Anaheim, CA (PRWEB) December 29, 2008 -- Max Muscle Sports Nutrition is rewarding $25,000 cash to the individual who can best attain...

Lean muscle mass helps even obese patients battle cancer

Lean muscle-mass may give even obese people an advantage in battling cancer, a University of Alberta study shows. The study, published in Lancet Oncology , provides evidence that varying body compositions of cancer patients likely plays a role in survival rates, activity levels during the illn...

Decreased activity of basal ganglia is the main cause of abnormal muscle constrictions in dystonia

Dystonia is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary abnormal muscle constrictions. More than 300,000 people in North America are affected, but the mechanism of abnormal muscle constrictions has not been well understood. Here, Japanese research team led by Prof Atsushi Nambu and Dr Sat...

Scientists ID Uterine Muscle Switch for Contractions

Finding may lead to new therapies for preterm labor FRIDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've found the switch that activates the uterine muscles for contraction during childbirth, a finding that may lead to therapies for preterm labor. The molecule prostacyclin n...

Sugammadex Study First to Show Rapid Reversal of Profound Rocuronium-Induced Muscle Relaxation is Possible

Publication of Comparative Study Shows Sugammadex Provides Significantly Faster Reversal of Profound Rocuronium-Induced Muscle Relaxation than Neostigmine KENILWORTH, N.J., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Schering-Plough Corp., (NYSE: SGP ) today announced that a study published in the No...

Women recover muscle strength more slowly than men

Women's muscles may require longer, more intensive rehabilitation after bed rest and cast immobilization, as reported today by the Institute for Neuromusculoskeletal Research at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM). According to Brian C. Clark, Ph.D., assistant professor...

Boomers Should Add Muscle Before It's Too Late

Resitance training in 60s, 70s wards off loss that weakens posture, balance, study says WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Strength training can help people build muscle mass to assist in the fight against the debilitating effects of old age until they reach 80, a new study says....

Making 'good' fat from muscle and vice versa

BOSTON--A surprise discovery -- that calorie-burning brown fat can be produced experimentally from muscle precursor cells in mice -- raises the prospect of new ways to fight obesity and overweight, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Reporting in the Aug. 21 issue of the journal ...

Stanford Bio-X researchers use needle-thin probe to get first look at working muscle fiber

Using an unusual microscope with a tip the size of a needle, Stanford researchers are now able to look at tiny fibers of working muscles in live humans, with minimum discomfort to the patienta development patients are sure to welcome. This microendoscopy technique for viewing sarcomeresmicrosco...

Webinar on June 25 to Focus on Opportunity for Treating Chronic Pain, Migraine and Muscle Spasticity Through Inhibition of Neurotransmitter Glutamate

TorreyPines Therapeutics' CEO Neil Kurtz, M.D., to Moderate Discussion Following Presentations by Tony Yaksh, Ph.D.; Jerome Goldstein, M.D.; and Alan J. Tuchman, M.D. LA JOLLA, Calif., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- A Webinar hosted by TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:...

Cancer Drug Gleevec Linked to Muscle Damage

French researchers say the problem can probably strike small percentage of patients WEDNESDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) -- French doctors have reported a possible new side effect associated with the cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib), widely used for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukem...

Genetic Disorder Drug Helps Reverse Heart Muscle Enlargement

Mice given BH4 had lower production of toxic free radicals from hypertension, study finds FRIDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Tests on mice suggest that the drug BH4 may hold promise as a treatment for people with enlarged hearts, says a Johns Hopkins University study. Currently, BH...

Decoding Muscle Stem Cell Development

Nutrient restriction triggers pathway involved with life span, study finds MONDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- Muscle stem cells can't grow into mature muscle cells if there aren't enough nutrients, according to a study that offers new insight into how developing muscle cells sense and...

Penn researchers discover 'modus operandi' of heart muscle protein

PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a protein called leiomodin (Lmod) promotes the assembly of an important heart muscle protein called actin. Whats more, Lmod directs the assembly of actin to form the pumping unit of the heart. The f...

Painkillers Boost Muscle Mass Among Weight-Training Elderly

Daily dose of ibuprofen, acetaminophen upped growth by 40% to 60%, study found SUNDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- A daily dose of either ibuprofen and acetaminophen appears to boost both muscle mass and strength among elderly men and women who do weight training. "It's surprising,"...

Older Women Have Harder Time Preserving Muscle Than Men

Key difference appears to be how their bodies react to protein, study says. WEDNESDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- Keeping in good shape is more difficult for older women than men because it's harder for women to replace muscle that's lost naturally as they age, say U.S. and British r...

Lithium chloride slows onset of skeletal muscle disorder

Irvine, Calif., March 18, 2008 -- A new UC Irvine study finds that lithium chloride, a drug used to treat bipolar disorder, can slow the development of inclusion body myositis, a skeletal muscle disease that affects the elderly. In the study by scientists Frank LaFerla and Masashi Kitazawa, mic...

Investigational drug tested for preventing muscle fiber death in muscular dystrophy

CINCINNATI An investigational antiviral drug currently undergoing human trials in Europe for treating Hepatitis C infections may have potential to reduce muscle cell damage in Duchenne and other forms of muscular dystrophy (MD). A research team led by Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center ...

Freeland, MI Woman Wins $50,000 for Losing Weight, Adding Muscle and Changing Her Life

Million Dollar Body(TM) Is Awarding Over One Million Dollars to Help People Lose Weight and Get in Better Shape ANAHEIM, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Fitness website MillionDollarBody.com has just announced a $50,000 Grand Prize winner in its Million Dollar Body Game(TM), an...

International Federation of Sports Medicine Selects Celadrin(R) Topical Cream as it's First and Only Official Joint and Muscle Topical Cream

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagenetix, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: IAGX), announced today that the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) and its Executive Committee has selected Celadrin(R) Topical Cream as its Official Pain Relieving Cream. FIMS's goal since 1928 was to pro...

Drug Cuts Muscle Damage After Heart Attack

Safety trial shows novel compound blocks enzyme triggering cell and tissue death THURSDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A drug designed to lessen muscle damage from a heart attack has passed initial safety tests in humans. The drug, known as KAI-9803, blocks the activity of an enzym...