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October 5, 2016

High resting heart rate tied to African American heart failure risk

For African Americans, a high resting heart rate may indicate greater risk of death or hospitalization with heart failure, a recent analysis finds.

October 5, 2016

Don't expect Fitbits to improve health, help drop pounds

Wearing a fitness tracker may help you keep tabs on how many steps you take, but the devices themselves — even with the lure of a cash reward — probably won't improve your health, according to the biggest study yet done on the trendy technology.

October 4, 2016

'Muscle memory' may not really exist

Muscle tissue does not have a "memory" of past exercise training, new research suggests

October 4, 2016

Risk test may put too many in unhelpful 'prediabetes' category

A widely supported web-based risk test suggests that 8 out of 10 people aged 60 years and older in the U.S. are at high risk for so-called prediabetes - but it may not be helpful to label so many people as "high risk," researchers say.

September 30, 2016

Child fitness gap linked to income inequality

In a comparison of fitness levels among children in 50 countries, the nations with the biggest internal income disparities tended to have the least fit youth.

September 29, 2016

Bike lanes are a sound public health investment

Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.

September 29, 2016

Exercise is good for your brain, as long as you don't skip too many workouts: study

Think it's OK to take a week off from working out?

September 28, 2016

In-office tests may detect hip tendon problems before MRI

Two simple tests that can be done in a doctor's office may be able to rule in or out a painful hip condition that is usually hard to diagnose without magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), according to a small study.

September 27, 2016

Poor exercise habits may follow teens into adulthood

Most American teenagers don't get enough exercise, and they often stick with their sedentary ways as they enter adulthood, a U.S. study suggests.

September 27, 2016

Walking is medicine? It helped high-risk seniors stay mobile

It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity - mostly walking - helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch potatoes.