(June 6, 2002) BETHESDA, Md. -- AIDS and HIV infection have long been known to cause weight loss, a condition called AIDS wasting. With the advent of new medications, catastrophic wasting is no longer ...

The number of diabetics & HIV in the population has seen a rise in the last decade. Early detection and better management has at the same time seen the survival rate of HIV patients improve. This ...

In 2011, Laura Beaver did not let the growing tumor in her body dictate her life. She kept up her normal hourlong gym routine. She took weekend bike rides near her Washington state home. She did the ...

Towards the final stages of diseases such as cancer and kidney disease, many patients develop cachexia, a devastating condition in which muscle mass and fat reserves waste away, leading to ...

Muscle atrophy, muscle-wasting, or the more technical term cachexia are all relatively interchangeable terms. It’s when a person begins to lose muscle and becomes increasingly weaker often as a result ...

Adult pancreatic β-cells are quiescent. Qi and colleagues show that mice lacking the receptors TLR2 and TLR4 exhibit islet-mass expansion during diet-induced obesity, due to β-cell proliferation in a ...

Cachexia is a process that accompanies many chronic diseases, and consists of a combination of wasting of lean body mass, increased energy expenditure, and a paradoxical loss of appetite. Cachexia ...

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 ...

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