A survey by industry body Assocham has revealed that as much as about 78 percent of adolescents in urban India areas tend to consume at least one dietary supplement like pills, energy drinks, steroids, and high-protein powders.
“The statistics are shocking, as many children are becoming overly involved and obsessed by a wide variety of substances [...]
While anti-VEGF therapy is gaining popularity for the treatment of diabetic macular edema, older treatments, including steroids, should be considered if needed.
“Anti-VEGF agents really only affect a very small aspect of the biochemical abnormalities in diabetic macular edema,” Peter K. Kaiser, MD, said at Retina 2012. “And steroids really attack many more areas [...]
In the world of sports where athletes want to get as much of an edge on the competition as possible, the use of steroids is a relatively quick fix.
However, steroid use may soon turn into steroid abuse resulting in side effects like liver disease, severe acne, and infertility.
From App.com:
While professional and college athletes were usually [...]
Former St Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire has admitted that his Major League Baseball playing career was featured by use of steroids.
McGwire said he used steroids at various times during the decade and regretted doing so.
From Espnstar.com:
“I used steroids during my playing career and I apologise,” McGwire said. “I remember trying steroids very briefly in [...]
Roughly one in six schoolboy rugby players are using illegal anabolic steroids, as per a new survey.
The SA Sports Medicine Association issued a warning in response to results of the survey and said the use of anabolic steroids is harmful to the health of school boys.
From Eyewitnessnews.co.za:
The association’s Dr John Patricious said the illegal use [...]
The Crimewatch TV presenter, Rav Wilding, has been accused by his former girlfriend, Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton, of ‘roid-rage’ - aggressive, and violent behavior that are believed to be the side effects of bodybuilding steroid drugs.
Wilding said he had taken steroids - but for asthma, rather than for body building.
From [...]
The home run machine, Mark McGwire, recently admitted that he was wrong to make use of steroids during his career including the time when he conquered the home run record in 1998.
McGwire’s confession after a similar steroid use admission by Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees in 2009.
From News.bbc.co.uk:
“I used steroids during my playing career and [...]
Eighty nine 89 Major League Baseball players, including Roger Clemens were linked with the use of performance enhancing drugs by a report by former senator George J Mitchell.
The report used informant testimony and supporting documents to provide a richly detailed portrait of what Mr. Mitchell described as “baseball’s steroids era.”
From NYTimes.com:
Mr. Clemens, a [...]
Athletes have been making use of steroids since last many decades and each one of them, irrespective of shape and size, is experimenting with the benefits of steroids during training sessions for staying close to success and recognition.
It is worthwhile to study the role of media that has never been shy to make an outcry [...]
Oradexon is being heavily used and forcibly given to sex workers from Bangladesh at Faridpur brothel are chhukri, or bonded sex workers, sold by their families to a woman in return for two or three years wherein the brothel owner pocket all of their earnings.
Some girls and women in the ‘red light [...]