Enveda announced positive Phase I results of its drug ENV-308, which mimics a molecule naturally produced during exercise.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gym haters, rejoice — the workout of the future may not require breaking a sweat. Biotech company Enveda announced this week that its experimental drug, designed to curb appetite and mimic some of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

A growing body of preclinical research is converging on a provocative idea: that the mental health benefits of physical exercise might one day be delivered in pill form. Scientists have identified ...

We all know the feeling: the mental clarity that comes after a good run or a heavy workout. Science backs this up, even showing that for non-severe depression, exercise can be just as effective as ...

Exercise isn’t good only for building muscle and losing weight. “If a pill could give you all benefits of exercise, it would be the best pill around,” says Edward Laskowski, co-director of Mayo Clinic ...