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Inclusion Body Myositis Specialty Clinic at Washington University, St. Louis

Inclusion Body Myositis Specialty Clinic at Washington University, St. Louis

by Kevin Dooley, MD | Jan 7, 2019 | News and Information

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, has announced the opening of an IBM Specialty Clinic devoted to inclusion body myositis. The clinic is run by Dr. Conrad “Chris” Weihl, a leading IBM clinician and researcher. Washington University is known...
Searching for Correlations: Muscle Strength, Muscle Biopsies, and MRI in Inclusion Body Myositis

Searching for Correlations: Muscle Strength, Muscle Biopsies, and MRI in Inclusion Body Myositis

by Kevin Dooley, MD | Dec 5, 2018 | News and Information

In sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM), which comes first: inflammation or degeneration? Dr. Christopher Lindberg and his team of researchers in Sweden recently attempted to answer this question. Both of these disease processes are present in the muscles in IBM,...
Rapamycin and Inclusion Body Myositis

Rapamycin and Inclusion Body Myositis

by Kevin Dooley, MD | Dec 8, 2017 | News and Information

From the soil of Easter Island to the clinics of Paris, the journey of rapamycin to its current position as a potential treatment for sporadic inclusion body myositis is a fascinating story of scientific discovery. A recent clinical trial provided encouraging results,...

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