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Exercise News

The New York Times has an article today about exercise and the elderly: researchers offer new guidelines on physical activity.

MedlinePlus.gov website adds information in other languages

Always available in both English and Spanish, http://medlineplus.gov/, the premier consumer health information website, has added health information in 44 languages about selected health conditions.

Some of the internationally prominent, new languages that have been added include: French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. But there also is new health information (with English translation) in: Navajo, Samoan, Vietnamese, Polish, Arabic and Farsi, among others. All foreign languages in MedlinePlus are accompanied an English equivalent.