Albert Stowell's family thought he was having a stroke. It was Easter dinner 2014, and they were all gathered around the table when he started slurring his words. A trip to the emergency room and a CT ...

Amitabh Bachchan, a Bollywood legend, faced a career-threatening health crisis in the late 1980s due to myasthenia gravis, a ...

Ocular myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune condition affecting the muscles surrounding and involving the eyes. Symptoms can include double vision, droopy eyelids, and more. Ocular myasthenia gravis ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) has been treatable for nearly 100 years. In 1934, the Scottish doctor Mary Broadfoot Walker, MD, discovered that the drug physostigmine improved muscle function in people with ...

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease in which antibodies bind to acetylcholine receptors or to functionally related molecules in the postsynaptic membrane at the neuromuscular junction. The ...

Jonathan Strober, MD, discusses promising results from the VIBRANCE-MG trial, highlighting nipocalimab's safety and efficacy for pediatric myasthenia gravis.

Decreased AChR-Ab titers correlated with improved myasthenia gravis symptoms, especially in ADL scores, within the first 3 months of treatment. The study found no baseline correlation between AChR-Ab ...

Although fatigue is a common medical complaint, fatigue related to myasthenia gravis has several key features: localized muscle weakness in a characteristic distribution,1 which is exacerbated by ...