Tokyo, Japan - Inflammatory myopathies can be challenging to treat, but a new study reports encouraging findings for patients with these debilitating conditions. Researchers from Japan have found that ...

Cancer cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome marked by a severe loss of body weight due primarily to the wasting of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. This syndrome is often accompanied by systemic ...

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) can use C-reactive protein (CRP), lymphocyte to CRP ratio, and CRP to albumin ratio as markers for CRC prognosis. Prognostic values for colorectal cancer (CRC) ...

Researchers from Oregon State University have developed a method to deliver anti-inflammatory drugs across the blood-brain barrier, which may enable new treatments for diseases such as cancer cachexia ...

The fatigue and lack of motivation that many cancer patients experience near the end of life have been seen as the unavoidable consequences of their declining physical health and extreme weight loss.

Eating disorders are often thought of as body image disorders with symptoms of food restriction and purging. In most cases, the goal of these behaviors is to prevent weight gain. Not all eating ...

This article is about unintended weight loss in people, which is called cachexia and is pronounced as kuh-KEK-see-uh. People with this look too thin and frail for their frame, and it’s common in the ...

This schematic illustration shows the major organs that are affected by and contribute to the development of pancreatic cancer cachexia. With pancreatic cancer at the center of the crosstalk network, ...

Researchers identified a direct connection between cancer-related inflammation and the loss of motivation characteristic of advanced cancer. In a mouse study, they describe a brain pathway that starts ...