Patients with this disease often coexist with a tumour, demonstrating both cancer and rheumatic disease symptoms. Other ...

New research from Tokyo, Japan could help clarify the role of proinflammatory mediators in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory myopathies, such as polymyositis and dermatomyositis.

As with other symptoms associated with the flu ... there is a small risk it could develop into something more serious. "Myositis is a more serious condition that results in muscle-cell ...