View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Towards the final stages of diseases such as cancer and kidney disease, many patients develop cachexia, a devastating condition in which muscle ...

The experimental drug ponsegromab is a monoclonal antibody that treats the growth factor that leads to the growth of cancer ...

Cachexia is a serious yet under-recognized consequence of many chronic diseases, including heart disease, kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and, most notably, cancer.

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have identified a cytokine produced by tumor cells as the key factor driving irreversible fat loss with the progression of cancer cachexia, a severe condition affecting ...

Historically, cachexia has not been fully understood. Also known as wasting syndrome, cachexia is often incorrectly viewed as simply an inevitable side effect to cancer and other chronic conditions.

Cardiac cachexia is the weight loss and decrease in appetite that occurs during states of chronically low cardiac output and congestive heart failure. This gives a poor prognosis independent of ...

Considering taking supplements to treat cachexia? Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of cachexia. Follow the links to read common uses, side effects ...

The work is published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle. "We are the first to study how certain drugs affect bones, and the results show that bimagrumab can increase the amount of ...

The wasting syndrome, scientifically known as Cancer cachexia, manifests with severe weight loss, muscle loss, and loss of ...

A new study has found over sixty per cent of women undergoing Cervical Cancer treatment at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) ...

Ponsegromab significantly increased body weight in patients with cancer cachexia and elevated GDF-15 levels compared to ...