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Just because you're pregnant doesn't mean you should stop exercising, but how much is too much? A new study under way in Baltimore may provide some answers. Sixty pregnant women in their third trimester are hitting the treadmill at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore to provide information on the impact of exercise on developing babies, the Baltimore Sun reports. "We do know that not only can exercise be done, it should be done," Dr. Andrew J. Satin, professor and vice chairman of the department of gynecology and obstetrics for the Hopkins School of Medicine, says in the story "Hopkins looks into fitness guidelines for pregnant women.

His name is Earl. His game is struggling. The darling of the Lakers a month ago, Earl Clark has faded recently, failing to hit double-digit scoring in six of the last seven games while trying to adapt to the biggest opportunity of his NBA life. If a player can hit the rookie wall in his fourth NBA season, it's happening now. He started his 23rd consecutive game Friday against the Toronto Raptors and finished with two points and two rebounds in the Lakers' 118-116 victory.

Astronauts hitched a giant chest of drawers containing a freezer, a sleeping compartment and a treadmill named for a TV satirist to the International Space Station. The Italian-built chest -- nicknamed Leonardo -- was moved from space shuttle Discovery to the station via a hefty robot arm. NASA's $5-million treadmill is officially called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT for short. Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert ended up with an exercise machine named in his honor after he won an online vote for christening rights to a space station room.

PHILADELPHIA - The Lakers finally found someone as messed up as they are. Not exactly in a pitying mood, they clubbed the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers, 111-98, Sunday at Wells Fargo Center. There were ridiculous moments (a Kwame Brown chant), predictable ones (76ers fans booing Kobe Bryant during introductions), and some neither here nor there, like the Lakers finishing 2-2 on their Eastern trip. Had they won in Cleveland, they might be more excited. Had they shown anything in New York before Carmelo Anthony was injured, people might even talk about a resurgence.

On a recent beautiful and sunny day, I strolled into my local gym to lift some weights. The gym is near Nose Hill Park, which is one of the largest municipal parks in North America. It has majestic views of the city of Calgary and the Rocky Mountains, which can be seen from endless miles of paths and trails. As I made my way toward the room full of heavy things I intended to pick up and put back down, I spied the double line of high-tech treadmills. Most of them were occupied. I looked at the indoor running enthusiasts and thought, Are you people on dope ?

A San Diego researcher has developed a device that for the first time will enable scientists to study the physiology of large fishes at sea, collecting information that observers hope may prove useful in commercial fishing and fisheries management.

I work out a little once in a while. On afternoons when I have nothing better to do, I go down to the Pritikin gym in Sherman Oaks and spend about 27 minutes offering symbolic commitment to good health, much as a born-again Christian might pray for redemption after a lifetime of sin. First I get on the treadmill.

Forward motion is, as they say, a good thing. It's gotten so that not-so-bad news about the Clippers' highly regarded rookie power forward and No. 1 overall draft pick Blake Griffin actually falls into the good-news department. On the face of it, word from the team Wednesday about Griffin's being cleared by doctors to begin running on an anti-gravity treadmill is a positive development. Griffin received the medical clearance after a series of tests on his injured left knee Tuesday, including a CT scan and MRI exam.

Time does not pass quickly when you're going nowhere fast. Suddenly, however, a new crop of stationary cardio exercise machines has livened up the indoor workout world, adding everything from Internet compatibility to ecology aids to creative new movement patterns. Here's some innovative aerobic body blasters worth working up a sweat for. -- It runs on you Woodway EcoMill: Curve-shaped manual treadmill with no motor, no buttons and a running surface made of 60 tank-tread-like rubberized slats that travel around a track, rather than a conventional, continuous tread belt pulled over a hard deck by two rollers.

DARPA's robotic cheetah has sprinted past another speed milestone: The four-legged robot can now officially run faster than Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world. Chalk one up for robots. Humankind, you appear to be losing your supremacy. A new video released by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency shows the robot, inspired by the anatomy of a cheetah, running as fast as 28.3 mph before it trips and falls on what would be its face, if it had one.  If it's any consolation, the robo-cheetah is only a bit faster than the human speed record holder: Bolt set the mark at 27.78 mph in 2009, during a 100-meter sprint.

DARPA's robotic cheetah has sprinted past another speed milestone: The four-legged robot can now officially run faster than Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world. Chalk one up for robots. Humankind, you appear to be losing your supremacy. A new video released by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency shows the robot, inspired by the anatomy of a cheetah, running as fast as 28.3 mph before it trips and falls on what would be its face, if it had one.  If it's any consolation, the robo-cheetah is only a bit faster than the human speed record holder: Bolt set the mark at 27.78 mph in 2009, during a 100-meter sprint.

SAN FRANCISCO - Dustin Moskovitz, at 27 the world's youngest billionaire, gained fame and fortune after founding Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg. He also gained the "Facebook 15. " He packed on the extra pounds while chowing down on free snacks and guzzling four sodas a day at the social networking giant. Today, Moskovitz is a svelte version of his former self. He runs Asana, a start-up named after the Sanskrit word for traditional yoga sitting positions. That's fitting since the company holds twice weekly group yoga classes at its San Francisco offices.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois has released a video showing him walking with the help of a cane and a harness as he talks about his rehabilitation since suffering a stroke in January. "I'm walking again," the Republican says, seated before a camera as he narrates a three-minute video showing him walking with a cane and on a hospital treadmill while fitted in a harness. At times he speaks haltingly, and the video shows him struggling to move his left side. Kirk was released last week from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and is continuing treatment there as an outpatient.

Time does not pass quickly when you're going nowhere fast. Suddenly, however, a new crop of stationary cardio exercise machines has livened up the indoor workout world, adding everything from Internet compatibility to ecology aids to creative new movement patterns. Here's some innovative aerobic body blasters worth working up a sweat for. -- It runs on you Woodway EcoMill: Curve-shaped manual treadmill with no motor, no buttons and a running surface made of 60 tank-tread-like rubberized slats that travel around a track, rather than a conventional, continuous tread belt pulled over a hard deck by two rollers.

Robo-Cheetah doesn't run, it gallops. And it doesn't have a head, because it doesn't need one. It was designed for speed, and it has got plenty of that. Robo-Cheetah can go up to 18 mph, making it the fastest robot on four legs. Robo-Cheetah has completely shattered the previous robotic quadripedal speed record, which was 13.1 mph, set at MIT in 1989, according to a news release on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) website. The robotic Cheetah was developed by the Massachusetts-based engineering company Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA.

If you are like most Americans, you vowed to lose weight and exercise regularly in 2012. And, if you are like most Americans, you probably have already given up. Well, "Biggest Loser" trainer Bob Harper would like to get you back on the health-and-fitness path. And he'd like you to do it by talking to your food. And to your treadmill. Actually, he would like you to scream profanities at them. Welcome to Bob Harper's " ... You " diet. (You know what the expletive is, people, but we are not allowed to write it out on our website, so use your imagination.)

Low-intensity walking may help people with Parkinson's disease improve their gait and mobility, a new study finds. The study, presented Tuesday at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in Honolulu, compared three different forms of exercise to see which was most beneficial to men and women with Parkinson's disease, which affects motor control. Researchers randomly assigned 67 people with the disease to one of three programs: a low-intensity treadmill walk for 50 minutes; a high-intensity treadmill walk for 30 minutes; and a weight and stretching regimen that included leg presses, extensions and curls.

His name is Earl. His game is struggling. The darling of the Lakers a month ago, Earl Clark has faded recently, failing to hit double-digit scoring in six of the last seven games while trying to adapt to the biggest opportunity of his NBA life. If a player can hit the rookie wall in his fourth NBA season, it's happening now. He started his 23rd consecutive game Friday against the Toronto Raptors and finished with two points and two rebounds in the Lakers' 118-116 victory.

As you reach for another snickerdoodle you're probably thinking about taking off all the weight you gained over the holidays. Maybe you're contemplating buying a piece of exercise equipment to use at home. Consumer Reports is here to help by rating the top home-use treadmills and ellipticals as well as pedometers, all in different price ranges. The Precor 9.31 is the top-rated non-folding treadmill, and also a pricey one at $4,000. At the number two spot is the Landice L7 Cardio Trainer at $3,800 and in third place is the True PS300 at $2,400.

I once suffered from clinical depression for a few months ["Infection … and Then OCD," Dec. 5]. There was no obvious cause, and my reactions to both herbal remedies and prescription drugs were strange. Then a routine annual physical exam revealed a prostate infection. The cure for the infection also cured the depression. It is wise to check for a purely physical cause for depression, especially if it has no obvious link to a traumatic event. George Tucker Redondo Beach Thank you for publishing Kathryn Joosten's experiences with battling her lung cancer and for pointing out how little funding is raised for this No. 1 killer ["Breathe In, Take a Quiz," Nov. 7]