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 ...

Scientists might be inching closer to a breakthrough that some of us lazy bums would very much appreciate: a pill that can safely provide the same healthy benefits of exercise. On Tuesday, the ...

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, ...

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 ...