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.

For this narrative review, peer-reviewed articles were searched on PubMed, clinical trials records were searched on clinicaltrials.gov, and records of digital measures submitted for regulatory ...

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 ...

Bonnie Addario didn’t even know there was a word for what was happening to her. As if lung cancer weren’t bad enough, the 54-year-old had lost 30 pounds off her normally 130-pound frame. Her life was ...

Cancer symptoms are often vague and subtle, making the condition hard to identify. Fortunately, knowing what to look for could be the first step towards prompt detection. Although lung cancer targets ...

Halting the advance of a muscle wasting condition called cachexia, could improve quality of life for cancer sufferers. For many years, oncologists and researchers thought the dramatic weight-loss of ...

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 ...

The Greeks named it cachexia, meaning "bad condition." And those that suffer from wasting syndrome's scary side effects—unexplained weight loss, muscle atrophy, decrease in appetite, anemia, and ...

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 ...