Anthony Forgione, a former police officer who was implicated in an Albany-based investigation of steroid trafficking, has pleaded guilty to a 15-count federal indictment for similar crimes.
The ex-cop faces a maximum potential sentence of life in prison for his guilty plea last Friday in U.S. District Court in Palm Beach County, Fla.
From Timesunion.com:
Two [...]
Sylvester Stallone, the 60-year-old American actor, has been charged with importing banned human growth hormone (HGH) vials into Australia.
The Hollywood had been in the country to promote his latest film, Rocky Balboa.
From Guardian.co.uk:
Lawyers for Stallone represented him in a Sydney court today, where prosecution documents allege that he had marked “no” on a customs [...]
Attorney General Paula Dow was called on by the deputy speaker of the Assembly for investigating the use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone among the law enforcement officers and firefighters of New Jersey.
Assemblyman John McKeon (D-Essex), citing the findings of seven-month investigation by The Star-Ledger, asked the attorney general to explore if criminal [...]
The UK government has made an effort for tightening the law surrounding to the drugs with the 2012 London Olympics approaching.
People who want to import steroids into Guernsey must now apply for the appropriate licence.
From BBC.co.uk:
People who want to import steroids into Guernsey must now apply for the appropriate licence.
With the 2012 London Olympics approaching, [...]
Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven were recently elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Sluggers Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire, Jeff Bagwell, and Juan Gonzalez came nowhere close and it is believed that the Steroids Era will prevent them from gaining the place in the near future.
From Thenewstribune.com:
Blyleven was picked on [...]
A powerlifter who set a benchpressing world record in Kennewick, Ryan Shawn Kennelly, faces criminal charges for delivering steroids.
The discovery was made after federal postal inspectors were able to track a shipment of steroids to a Kennewick apartment connected to him.
From Thenewstribune.com:
Kennelly, 36, pleaded innocent in Benton County Superior Court to possession with intent to [...]
Patients afflicted with chronic urticaria who responded to colchicine used significantly fewer steroids after starting colchicine than before starting it, according to a review of 55 patients who were treated with colchicine for chronic urticaria.
Colchicine is an effective steroid-sparing agent that can be used to treat refractory chronic idiopathic [...]
A consensus has emerged that corticosteroids provide major benefits in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock, according to Dr. Djillali Annane said at the 12th International Congress on Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Annane of the University of Versailles, France, remarked that these benefits come only low doses of corticosteroids administered for at least [...]