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Researchers have identified a new technique that can help determine the severity of muscle loss in critically ill patients. The breakthrough could lead to new research to help prevent muscle-wasting and new therapeutic interventions to help treat critically ill patients. The results of the study will be presented today (2 September 2012) at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Vienna. Patients who are critically ill with multi-organ failure often have significant muscle...