The diagnosis: The man appeared to be having clonic seizures — repeated jerking movements — in his arm while solving sudoku, ...

While hiccups are usually harmless and short-lived, they can, in rare circumstances, become medically significant ...

Brazil's jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro was recently reported to have undergone three medical treatments to stop a bout of persistent hiccups ...

Chinese researchers have built a self-healing gelatin sensor that lets robots rate pain and protect themselves after damage.

A gelatin memristor with 16 stable conductance states mimics biological pain perception, rating intensity, sensitizing after ...

But she did uncover something that was missed in the emergency department: that bout of food poisoning that Greg had 3 weeks ago after eating those questionable chicken nuggets. Soon after, the ...

Pumping iron isn’t the only way to pump the brakes on age-related muscle loss. While weight training has long been lauded as the key to building and maintaining muscle mass, experts say there are ...

Muscle relaxers help reduce muscle stiffness and pain from conditions like cerebral palsy and lower back pain. There are two main types of muscle relaxers: antispastics and antispasmodics. Muscle ...

Many people stop taking cholesterol-lowering statins because they experience muscle aches, weakness, and fatigue. A new study by Columbia researchers now suggests that at least for some people, the ...