In unraveling the pathways by which movement helps the body, we could develop medicines that offer some of the same benefits, ...

Every week, there seems to be another story about the health benefits of running. That's great—but what if you can't run? For the elderly, obese or otherwise mobility-limited, the rewards of aerobic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Dreamstime) Could some of the metabolic benefits of exercise someday come in a pill? An experimental drug designed to mimic a ...

The idea of getting some of exercise’s benefits from a pill has hovered somewhere between serious medicine and science fiction. Now, one such drug has made it through its first test in people. Enveda, ...

After Popeye the Sailor Man eats a can of spinach, he can grow strong muscles. Can the rest of us now also take a pill that does the job of exercise? In the June issue of the journal Nature, a ...

If exercise isn't exactly your favourite way to spend your free time, the idea of getting some of its benefits from a pill probably sounds pretty appealing. And while we're a long way from replacing ...

It sounds like something out of a utopian vision of the future from a 1970s science-fiction movie: What if you could reap all the benefits of exercise without lifting a finger? Or, more accurately, ...

Newswise — Trying to reap the health benefits of exercise? Forget treadmills and spin classes, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may have found a way around the sweat and pain.