Health

Perspire to Greatness

The latest ways to get fit

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Post-partum, post-injury or post-winter, the Philadelphia area is filled with fitness options for people of all ages and abilities.

Fitness

Working Assets

The latest in workout togs, treads and technology

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Mimi James, Perfect Fit Feature

If you’re still working out in a T-shirt from Super Sunday 1998, shorts with holes you hope no one sees, and a pair of cotton socks — it’s time to upgrade your gear.

Healthy Eating

Lose Yourself to Find Yourself

Determining which bariatric procedure is right for you

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Gail Snyder, Perfect Fit Feature

Even though there is no such thing as a typical weight-loss surgery patient, the majority of people who have bariatric surgery are women in their childbearing years with obesity-related health problems.

Health

Biomarker Can Predict Life-threatening Tumors

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center/the University Hospital for Einstein have found a biomarker in head and neck cancers that can predict whether a patient's tumor will be life-threatening. Their findings, published in the Jan. 9 edition of American Journal of Pathology , reveal that the biomarker is considered particularly promising...

Local

Einstein Healthcare's Return to Roots

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Michael Elkin

Can a regional medical center born of a need to serve 19th-century Jewish patients shunned for treatment elsewhere reclaim its birthright in the new millennium? Barry Freedman, president and CEO of Einstein Healthcare Network, is working on it. Serving the expanding facility, with 1,250 beds and more than 2,000 employed and affiliated physicians, residents and fellows for the past eight...