Objective To assess the effect of participating in an exercise intervention compared with no exercise during cancer treatment on the duration and frequency of hospital admissions. Design Systematic ...

Research in mice shows that the anti-inflammatory properties of exercise may arise from immune cells mobilized to counter exercise-induced inflammation. Immune cells prevent muscle damage by lowering ...

The connection between exercise and inflammation has captivated the imagination of researchers ever since an early 20th-century study showed a spike of white cells in the blood of Boston marathon ...

In a new study, researchers have uncovered how exercise might help the immune system fight cancer: by changing the gut microbiome in a way that boosts production of a compound called formate. This ...

New research reveals that exercise doesn't just benefit muscles or the heart—it triggers a cascade of molecular and cellular changes across nearly every organ in the body. In a sweeping study of rats, ...

When you start feeling under the weather, you might reach to the sides of your neck (just like your parents used to) to see if you have inflamed lymph nodes. Even if you know nothing else about the ...

We all get sick sometimes. Even something pretty minor, like a cold or flu, can be enough to disrupt your life for a few days ...

On a brisk afternoon in March 2009 in Ontario, as winter melted into spring, Mark Tarnopolsky and his team at McMaster University sat around a table for their weekly lab meeting. The topic was the ...

New Delhi: Effects of exercise on easing symptoms of osteoarthritis are likely minimal, short lived, and probably no better than no treatment at all, suggests an analysis of previously published ...

Share on Pinterest Exercise gives the brain a boost, and may help protect against cognitive decline, but why? Image credit: NICK VEASEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Exercise can stimulate brain ...