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.
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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.
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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 [...]
A pepper ingredient used for turning up heat in jalapeqos, Capsaicin, can drive and kill prostate cancer cells as per a study appearing in an issue of Cancer Research.
This pepper ingredient has the ability of programming death of cells or apoptosis of the prostate cancer cells, according [...]
Bronchilitis, a common viral lower respiratory infection in infants, is not effectively treated with steroids among children. The finding was disclosed in a study published in the July 26 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
It was also suggested that steroid-based medications are not useful for preventing hospitalization and improving respiratory [...]
The fact that most asthmatic people do not take their inhaled steroid medications on time may be the reason behind a majority of asthma hospitalization cases, as per a research that featured in an issue of the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (JACI).
The JACI is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Academy of [...]
Gene activity can be influenced to a considerable extent via intermittent signaling by steroid hormones, according to a research by scientists at the University of Bristol and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA. These findings were published online and appeared in the September 2009 issue of Nature Cell Biology.
It is considered that the findings would [...]
Teriparatide, a synthetic form of the human parathyroid hormone can be used to treat glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (OP), as per a recent study.
It was found by the involved researchers that patients with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis and administered with teriparatide for a period of 36 months displayed a higher increase in the level of bone mineral density and [...]