Nicholas J. Silvestri, MD, recounts how the 2025 American Academy of Neurology meeting was an exciting and energizing event, particularly in the realm of myasthenia gravis (MG), where numerous new ...

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 ...

It’s a lifelong autoimmune neuromuscular disease. It causes certain muscles to weaken easily after you use them. Muscle fatigue typically varies throughout the day (sometimes hour by hour) and gets ...

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Developing safe and sustainable exercise habits is important, especially when you live with a condition like myasthenia gravis. Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune condition that causes weakness in the ...

Myasthenia gravis is becoming increasingly common around the world, with a resulting disease burden beset by high health care resource utilization, decreased quality of life, and worsened mental ...

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Five therapies are currently approved by the FDA for treating the symptoms of myasthenia gravis, allowing partial to complete remission. Research suggests that five new therapies may become available ...

Doctors may recommend oral medications such as pyridostigmine and various intravenous (IV) drugs for the treatment of myasthenia gravis. Thymectomy surgery and plasma exchange may also help. The aim ...