COLUMBUS, Ohio - The State Medical Board of Ohio is expected to soon evaluate whether to expand the list of conditions for medical marijuana to include cachexia, also known as wasting syndrome.

The burden of cancer cachexia on patients' health-related quality of life, specifically their physical functioning, is well documented, but clinical trials thus far have failed to show meaningful ...

Cachexia is a condition which denotes the excessive loss of weight. It occurs because of the depletion of adipose tissue and muscle mass in people who are not trying to lose weight. It is also known ...

Cachexia is an underappreciated complication of systemic lupus erythematosus, researchers reported. A total of 56.3% of patients developed the involuntary weight loss accompanied by loss of ...

Cachexia in older SCLC patients leads to inferior survival rates and increased treatment complications, such as dose reductions and incomplete chemotherapy courses. Patients with cachexia had ...

Certain cancers cause people to weaken and waste away. A mouse model of this points to tumour-induced blockade of molecules that normally protect muscle innervation and mass. Will the discovery lead ...

Nearly one-third of cancer patients die from a side-effect you’ve likely never heard of: cancer cachexia. With cachexia, a patient loses a significant amount of weight due to their disease, with ...

Communicating with family members about cachexia and anorexia can be difficult. "I tell patients' families to gently encourage but don't try to force feed, because that is actually worse than doing ...

Cachexia is clinically obvious in its advanced phase (with gross loss of fat and skeletal muscle), and as such has been recognized as an adverse effect of cancer since the time of Hippocrates. However ...