Alex Ariza, the strength and conditioning coach of Manny Pacquiao, does not get bothered by accusations of steroid use against the Filipino boxing champion.
The coach has worked with Pacquiao for his last 8 fights in which Pacquiao held victories over Oscar de la Hoya, Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, Joshua Clottey, Antonio Margarito, and Shane Mosley.
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Five members of the North Korean football team have tested positive for a banned steroid at the women’s World Cup in Germany.
The world governing body of Football, FIFA, announced three new cases on Saturday, but did not disclose the women’s names.
From English.chosun.com:
FIFA ordered testing for all members of the North Korean club after two of [...]
A few suspected steroid users, including Rafael Palmeiro and Juan Gonzalez, are on baseball’s Hall of Fame ballot for the first time. They will be joining Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar, both having fallen just short in last year’s vote.
Former Most Valuable Players Jeff Bagwell and Larry Walker, and former Rookies [...]
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 [...]
The IOC (International Olympic Committee) is planning to consult its member federations to double the ban time period to four years for first-time offenders using steroids.
An increase in ban from two to four years was proposed by IAAF, Athletics’ world governing body.
From News.bbc.co.uk:
IOC president Jacques Rogge said: “The IOC will take a common [...]
Dane Dorahy, Halifax’s Australian half-back, has been reprimanded by the RFL (Rugby Football League) after he failed to clear a drug test.
The explanation provided by Dorahy that he took steroids during a course of rehabilitation from an ankle injury was accepted by the advisory panel of RFL.
From News.bbc.co.uk:
Dorahy, son of former Wigan and Warrington coach [...]
An important animal model in disease and environmental studies, Zebrafish, could offer the means for helping scientists eventually reveal the function of a mysterious enzyme linked to the steroid cortisol, and found in the human brain.
This finding was disclosed by Michael E. Baker, PhD, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego [...]
Teriparatide, a synthetic form of the human parathyroid hormone, can be more than just useful for treating glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (OP) as per a recent study.
It was found by the research team that patients with glucocorticoid-induced OP who were treated with teriparatide for a period of 3 years had a greater enhancement [...]
A Staten Island doctor who was charged for peddling anabolic steroids to NYPD cops and bodybuilders walked out of the court as a free man. Richard Lucente was made free to go after his lawyer gloated over the no-jail deal.
Lucente was facing charges that could have put him in dozen of years in prison [...]