Doping tests should be scrapped for international sports
According to a research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, and steroid (testosterone) doping tests should be scrapped for international sporting events since they ignore ethnic disparities in hormonal activity.
A single indiscriminate threshold for picking up steroid abuse in international sport is no fit for the purpose, the research said.
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Joe Janiak hits back in row
Joe Janiak, the Australian trainer, has responded to claims that Takeover Target should not have been invited to run at Royal Ascot.
British trainer Mark Johnston said Takeover Target, the nine-year old, could have an unfair advantage after testing positive for a banned steroid in 2006.
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Janiak said the criticism is unfair: “There’s no justification for [...]
Low Prozac doses can relieve PMS misery
Misery of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) can be alleviated when Prozac, known generically as fluoxetine, is taken in low doses, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham.
The scientists found out that Prozac has the ability to raise levels of a sex hormone that can drop sharply in women at the end of their [...]
Suspension of 50 games for Ramirez
Manny Ramirez, the slugger from LA Dodgers, has been handed over a suspension by the MLB for 50 games after was found violating the league’s anti-doping policy by using a performance enhancing drug.
Ramirez immediately said after the league’s decision that what he used was not a steroid but a drug prescribed to him [...]
Baseball haunted by steroid accusations
Alex Rodriguez, star third-baseman for the New York Yankees and baseball’s highest-paid player, who recently touched the magical figure of 600 career home runs, has been accused of making use of steroids.
It seems that there is no getting back for the game of baseball, which has been haunted by steroid accusations in the recent [...]
Steroid imports lead to find on former AFL player
Former Hawthorn and West Coast player, Daniel Chick, was fined $7000 after he pleaded guilty of importing steroids.
The 33-year-old former West Coast star and current Subiaco player detained by Customs and Border Protection over steroids importation at Perth International Airport. He was then questioned importing performance and image enhancing drugs into [...]
Obese asthmatic patients not beneficiaries of steroids
The primary controller medication for asthma, glucocorticoids, is 40 percent less effective in obese and overweight asthma patients when compared to asthmatic patients with normal weight, as per a finding disclosed by researchers at National Jewish Health.
This study, by Associate Professor of Medicine E. Rand Sutherland, MD, MPH and his colleagues [...]
Children with allergies are over-burdened with steroids
Drug experts issued a warning to parents and healthcare professionals in regard to the fact that children suffering from allergic conditions such as asthma and hayfever are being over-prescribed corticosteroids.
This warning was issued after a research unveiled at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) in Manchester suggested that most of the children with from multiple allergic [...]
Kidney disease treatment possible with organ rejection drug
A drug currently used for preventing kidney transplant rejection was recently rated as useful during evaluation at John Hopkins. The drug, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), can prove useful for providing relief to patients with severe symptoms of kidney disease.
During the evaluation, it was found that significant enhancements can be [...]
Black asthmatic teens more resistant to steroid-based asthma treatment
Black teens suffering from asthma are three times more likely to have steroid-resistant asthma than their white counterparts with the disease, as per a research conducted at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center.
Joseph Spahn, M.D., a pediatric allergist and director of the Immunopharmacology Lab at National Jewish said that African-American children are at a [...]