Monomelic amyotrophy (MMA) is a medical condition in which there is a progressive degeneration and loss of motor neurons. Motor neurons are the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control ...

Monomelic amyotrophy (MMA) is a condition of the nerves called motor neurons that are responsible for controlling voluntary muscles. The condition causes no pain. MMA occurs in males aged between ages ...

A woman struck by a rare, debilitating disease lives in fear that the muscle-wasting illness will come back and erase the progress that she has made. Samantha Evans, 21, first noticed an issue in her ...

Guntur: The rare Hirayama disease, also known as monomelic amyotrophy, has been found to afflict 10 patients in the Government General Hospital (GGH) at Guntur over the past few years. There is no ...

Bruce Courtney’s journey with ALS started with a sense of weakness in his right hand. At first, the Valley Center resident was diagnosed in 2016 with benign monomelic amyotrophy, a rare disease that ...

GUNTUR: As many as 10 cases of Hirayama disease, a rare neurological disease, were detected in the district, NV Sundarachary, head of the neurology department of the Guntur GGH, said. He added that ...