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Heart-failure patients suffer no setbacks from exercise in studies (Denver Post)
Heart-failure patients who started a supervised aerobic-exercise program reported better quality of life after three months, though the physical activity only modestly reduced their risk of being hospitalized or dying over 2½ years, researchers have found.
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Exercise likely safe for heart patients (Pioneer Press)
Heart failure patients who started a supervised aerobic exercise program reported better quality of life after three months, though the physical activity only modestly reduced their risk of being hospitalized or dying over 2 1/2 years, researchers have found.
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Exercise Good Even After Heart Failure (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
Now scientists say regular exercise is safe even for people who survive heart failure and may slightly lower their risk of death or another hospitalization.
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Exercise is safe, improves quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure (EurekAlert!)
( NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute ) Regular exercise is safe for heart failure patients and may slightly lower their risk of death or hospitalization, according to results from the largest and most comprehensive clinical trial to examine the effects of exercise in chronic heart failure patients. The study also found that heart failure patients who add regular, moderate physical …
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Exercise Might Benefit Some With Heart Failure (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) — A regular program of moderate exercise will not harm people with heart failure and probably will benefit some of them, a new study has found.
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Caffeine Reduces Pain During Exercise, Study Shows (Science Daily)
A former competitive cyclist who is now a professor of kinesiology and community health has found that caffeine reduces pain during exercise.
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GlaxoSmithKline seeks new approval for breast drug
Does exercise help prevent breast cancer? (News-Medical-Net)
A new federally funded University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study aims to learn whether women at high risk of breast cancer can use exercise to meaningfully reduce their risk of getting the disease.
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Exercise needed to stave off Type II diabetes (Ventura County Star)
If obese or overweight Americans don’t begin to eat right and fit more exercise into their schedules, there could be another economic crisis on the horizon, according to Dr. Joseph Donnelly, director of the Center for Physical Activity and Weight Management at the University of Kansas.
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Bill to encourage physical activity in schools ‘may not go far enough’ (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)
At a time when childhood obesity rates are on the rise and physical activity in schools is continually decreasing, some Poudre School District physical education teachers said a bill encouraging more physical activity may not go far enough.
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Physical Education Requirements Reduced From Two to One (The Commentator)
All Yeshiva University undergraduate schools have recently decided to reduce the requirements from two semesters of Physical Education to one. The new policy will lessen the load of academic requirements and relieve budgetary stress. Students were informed of the decision in a mid-March email.
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