Babbitt Travis was very excited when he learned that his 30-second public service announcement won the first place in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Sports PSA category sponsored by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation. After learning that he won, Babbitt started sending text messages to his parents and friends.
The said audio and video [...]
Researchers of the Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University had reported that female teen girls were prefering steroids not only for athletic performance enhancement, but the use was also linked with various other unhealthy choices, including smoking and taking diet pills.
The study was published in Archives of Pediatrics [...]
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry recently announced that oral steroids are ineffective in treatment of virus-induced wheezing in preschool children. This new finding brings national guidelines for the treatment of viral-induced wheezing under cirle of questions and doubts.
The research was funded by a grant from Asthma UK and focused mainly on [...]
Producer from ESPN, Kory Kozak, writes a feature about Tony Mandarich’s past as the Incredible Bulk. This monicker came from the title of Sports Illustrated magazine in the NFL player’s unbelievable performance when he plays football.
According to accounts of Kozak, Mandarich was huge when he played for the NCAA. He was a mutant with 308lbs [...]
The arrest of 10 individuals linked to steroids made everyone realize how they had taken the matter too lightly. The authorities have been lenient with the existence of these substances in the community. Different government agencies worked together to arrest the widespread doping problem in Tulsa. For almost 2 years the Tulsa Police, the Oklahoma [...]
Current steroid doping tests ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity, reveals a new study done by the Swiss reserachers. The research suggested that doping test policy should be scrapped from international sport as it overlooked ethnic differences.
The researchers, in order to find inadequacy of current doping test, conducted a research on 57 football players, [...]
The researchers of University of Cincinnati brought a new discovery, related to anti-estrogen drugs, in the light. They found that in medulloblastoma—the most common type of pediatric brain tumor, estrogen receptors were present. This discovery leads them to believe the fact that anti-estrogen drug treatments might work in limiting tumor progression and improving patients’ overall [...]
Some people wonder what motivates some MLB players to take steroids. Baseball can be played and won without having performance-enhancing drugs. But there are those who take them to, in the perspective of outsiders, to cheat, to improve their performance so they get the coveted titles bestowed upon them if they have played exceptionally during [...]
How is Gary Sheffield doing now that the season has opened? He has been a little bit rusty especially since the Tigers hardly let him play this spring and the last time that he really played in the outfield was in 2005 with the Yankees. Is he faring any better with the Mets?
Everybody knows that [...]
According to a recent report related to steroids use, it was revealed that people with hay fever had higher risk of getting a migraine if they used nasal steroid spray.
In a discovery made by Dr. Jitka Pokladnikova of Charles University in Prague and his colleagues, it was found that use of intranasal corticosteroids by individuals, [...]