"We are the connective tissue in this community," Marci Lesko, CEO of United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, said. For the last 10 years, the Lehigh Valley nonprofit, LINC, which stands for ...

You get a hernia when an organ or fatty tissue squeezes through a weak spot in a surrounding muscle or connective tissue ... chest from your belly. Your esophagus runs from your throat to ...

This paper reclaims the term “mechanotherapy” and presents the current scientific knowledge underpinning how load may be used therapeutically to stimulate tissue repair and remodelling in tendon, ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) and connective tissue diseases (CTD) are both B-cell-mediated, antibody-associated autoimmune diseases that share similar mechanisms of immune dysfunction. The coexistence of MG ...

Marfan syndrome is a rare genetic disorder of the connective tissue, affecting the skeleton, lungs, eyes, heart and blood vessels. The condition is caused by a defect in the gene that tells the body ...