HIV patients on steroids gain muscle mass and weight

Friday, December 11th, 2009

People with HIV and being administered with anabolic steroids for preventing AIDS wasting tend to experience modest gains in terms of body weight and muscle mass as per findings brought to the notice by a new review.
This review appeared in an issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization [...]

Growing use of Anabolic Steroids in Sports

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Despite so much of reading material and reliable sources, there still seems to be a bit of misunderstanding at times when it comes to use of anabolic steroids in sports or bodybuilding.
Let us find what really anabolic steroids are and how they can provide an advantage to professional sportsmen and bodybuilders when it comes to [...]

Steroids Help Sparrows with Singing

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Increased level of testosterone in the Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow created more neuronal connections which trigger their brains to attract their mates. In the Journal of Neuroscience, Eliot Brenowitz and his colleagues reported that this steroid increases the size of song production areas in brain of birds.
Studies showed the effect on 19 adult male white-crowned sparrows, [...]

A New anabolic steroid revealed-DMT

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Chemists have designed this new steroid desoxymethyltestosterone (DMT), which is the third after norbolethone and tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which were identified in 2002 and 2003, respectively, by chemists at the Olympic Analytical Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. The discovery of DMT was announced in a conference call by the Montreal lab.
DMT was synthesized [...]

Anabolic Steroids beneficial in controlling AIDS wasting!

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Medical Research has spelled good news, for people suffering from AIDS. This came into light through a review which talked about studied being done on 13 studies carried out on HIV adults ranging from 24 to 42 years of age. The ones administered with doses of anabolic steroids for close to six months showed [...]

Ethnic variations make steroids tests unsuitable!

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The results on steroid testosterone tests carried out in Switzerland with lab approval from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have stated the fact that ethnic variations might cause steroid testosterone doping tests in sport to be unsuitable in a way. Though many people might question the issue raised, the research says that there are prominent [...]

Steroid Doping Tests Neglect Racial Diversity in Hormone Activity

Monday, April 20th, 2009

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, [...]