Myasthenia gravis is a chronic condition that causes muscles to tire and weaken easily. For example, if you have myasthenia gravis, you may notice that during a meal, your jaw muscles become tired ...

How Is Myasthenia Gravis Diagnosed? During a physical exam for myasthenia gravis, your health care provider may look for signs such as a droopy eyelid, difficulty holding your arms out at shoulder ...

Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is "a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue," says Hesterlee. It occurs "when a person’s immune system is essentially ...

Winnacunnet High School senior Joe Labrecque has transformed his battle with a rare chronic illness into a mission to help others.

The approval marks the second international approval for rozanolixizumab (Rystiggo; UCB Pharma) for generalized myasthenia ...

Nicholas J. Silvestri, MD, describes how this year’s AAN meeting highlighted significant advances in myasthenia gravis, including improved diagnostics through cell-based assays that enhance ...

People who suffer from the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis experience muscle weakness that can affect any of the muscles we use to blink, smile or even move our body around. Researchers have ...

Autoimmune generalized myasthenia gravis is a disease that manifests with fluctuating muscle weakness. Inebilizumab is a monoclonal antibody that depletes CD19+ B cells, which are central to ...

But one of the rarest muscular disorders is also one of the most concerning. It's called myasthenia gravis and affects only about 37 out of every 100,000 people in the United States. Despite being ...