Sportsmen can now exercise for long and enhance performance without feeling the heat after two drugs, AICAR and GW1516, were discovered by scientists in the United States.
It is being considered that identification of these drugs will offer an “unfair” advantage like that offered by anabolic steroids to people especially sportsmen [...]
According to a research by scientists at the University of Bristol and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA, intermittent signaling by steroid hormones has an influence on the manner in which genes are expressed in rodents.
The research appeared online and was published in the September 2009 issue of Nature Cell Biology.
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Children and adults with asthma can exercise better control over the disease activity when treated with inhaled corticosteroids than with cromolyn, according to a study conducted by James Guevara, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues.
During comparisons made between inhaled corticosteroids and cromolyn, the researchers were able to [...]
More and more people are making use of anabolic steroids such as Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) in order to enhance performance and build solid muscles.
According to a study, as many as 9 percent of bodybuilders visiting gymnasiums in the United Kingdom are making use of steroids to improve the quality of muscles and [...]
Around 37 million people in the United States alone are afflicted with sinusitis and most of them also suffer from asthma, which is an inflammatory disease of the lungs characterized by reversible airway obstruction.
In order to identify variations in sinusitis symptoms experienced by asthmatics versus non-asthmatics, a study was conducted and authors of “The Incidence [...]
A research has suggested that men face enormous pressure to have strong, muscular bodies and this can be one of the factors behind growing pressure to use steroids, symptoms of eating disorders, and an unhealthy preoccupation with lifting weights.
Men idolized muscular men in the media, as per Tracy Tylka, author of [...]
Lance Armstrong, champion cyclist, was accused by Floyd Landis, the former team-mate, of using performance boosting drugs.
In an email sent to Stephen Johnson, the president of USA Cycling, Landis alleged that Johan Bruyneel, Armstrong’s team director since 1999, told him about ways of using steroid patches, human growth hormone, and blood [...]
Medical practitioners will be helped by results from two French Studies at the Liver CongressTM 2010 press conference for treating their patients with severe or acute alcoholic hepatitis.
It was remarked by Professor Philippe Mathurin from the H-pital Huriez, CHRU Lille, France who presented the results that treating patients and highlighting new [...]