The 26-year-old Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed al Maktuom was recently banned from endurance races. He was given a ten-month suspension, following the positive test of his horse, Eo Fawati, from Stanozolol.
The prince rode his horse in Bahrain in a 120-kilometer endurance race, where the test was also conducted.
According to the prince, investigations at the family’s [...]
August 19, 2009 | Posted in
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A study was recently performed by a team of researchers from the Southern Cross University (SCU) in Australia. It revealed anabolic steroids to have a negative effect on the immune system. It increased risk for viral infections and cancer.
The study involved multi-national volunteers who were divided into two groups. One group received testosterone enanthate while [...]
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Australian scientists from the Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne have claimed that they have been able to ascertain a noteworthy link between a gene that is involved in testosterone and male-to-female transsexualism.
It was remarked that there may be many more genes responsible for playing a part. The involved scientists remarked that biological [...]
August 18, 2009 | Posted in
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Anabolic steroids may be beneficial for patients with muscle wasting illnesses but for those who have no illness whatsoever, anabolic steroids may pose greater risks, heart attack and liver damage.
A study conducted by the San Francisco VA Medical Center, led by Carl Grunfeld, MD, chief of metabolism and endocrine sections, proves that anabolic steroids use [...]
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According to findings reported by S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D. at the American Society of Hematology’s annual meeting, lenalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone therapy can prove to be highly beneficial as compared to lenalidomide plus high-dose dexamethasone for treating multiple myeloma. The findings were part of results of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Phase III clinical trial [...]
August 17, 2009 | Posted in
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The Mitchell report’s official name is actually Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and other Performance Enhancing Substances by players in Major League Baseball.
It was the official report done by former Senator George Mitchell after twenty months of investigation period. He was appointed by Bud [...]
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In a study involving 353 patients with myeloma and conducted at 44 centers in the United States and Canada, it was found that a combination of Lenalidomide and dexamethasone found effective against multiple myeloma.
It was found during the study that pairing a new thalidomide derivative with a steroid tends to slowdown the progression of multiple [...]
August 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Researchers working out of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory in Los Angeles have found a new synthetic designer steroid that was earlier unknown. This steroid has been identified as tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) and the involved researchers have already initiated plans to develop an accurate urine detection test for the same.
From News-Medical.Net:
Urine samples were purposely spiked with [...]
August 15, 2009 | Posted in
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According to a new study presented at the American Thoracic Society, some children may face problems to control asthma when treated with inhaled corticosteroids, which is a mainstay of asthma treatment.
The study highlighted the fact that some asthmatic children may be genetically less responsive to steroids, as per researcher Gregory Sawicki, M.D. of Children’s Hospital [...]
August 14, 2009 | Posted in
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According to scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Center, addition of corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy help patients recover from pneumonia faster than with antibiotics in isolation.
Pneumonia is a lung infection that is primarily characterized by breathing ailments and is spread by sneezing and coughing.
Dr. Robert Hardy, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics [...]
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