According to scientists from the UT Southwestern Medical Center, patients suffering from pneumonia can recover more quickly when corticosteroids are added to traditional antimicrobial therapy.
Corticosteroids are primarily used for treating inflammation related to infectious diseases unlike anabolic steroids that are used for bulking up the body muscles.
In a study available online, researchers at UT Southwestern [...]
September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Being an athlete herself both in high school and in college, former Miss South Dakota 2008 Alexandra Hoffman thinks that talking against steroids brings a good message not only for the student athletes but to ordinary students as well.
Many young people nowadays use steroids for both physical and mental reasons. They either take it to [...]
September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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The highlights of September’s Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) included a review of the safety and effectiveness of a commonly-used corneal transplant procedure. The review was accompanied with a warning about a rare but fatal reaction to systematic fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics used to treat a variety of bacterial [...]
September 23, 2009 | Posted in
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Steroids, fraud, cheating - these are some of the things athletes are willing to take and commit all for the lure of riches.
Major League Baseball is just one of the organizations plagued by steroid controversies. In 2007, ever since the Mitchell Report came into public, the league has been shaken and its athletes’ integrities have [...]
September 23, 2009 | Posted in
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The State Supreme Court Justice John Egan Jr. quashed a subpoena for granting access to thousands of document pages about the new $1.5 billion stadium by Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. Egan wrote that subpoenas should not be used as fishing expeditions.
This quashing order has offered a big sigh of relief to the Yankees camp who were [...]
September 22, 2009 | Posted in
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The World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) recently announced that their 2010 list of banned substance is official and will take effect by January 1, 2010.
Scientists discovered that the substance, pseudoephedrine, which is found in cold medicines and is a stimulant, contains performance-enhancing properties beyond certain doses.
The agency has been monitoring the effects of pseudoephedrine for the [...]
September 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Romain Quidant, who was recently awarded the Fresnel Prize 2009 as recognition for the highest level of excellence amongst emerging researchers in the field of photonics, recently presented his research into the identification and treatment of cancer by using gold nanoparticles illuminated with laser light.
It was revealed that the idea behind this finding was to [...]
September 21, 2009 | Posted in
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A child health researcher from the University of Sydney conducted a research in 2002 that showed young boys purchasing steroid tablets from a gym or drug dealer without even knowing what they were. All they know is that the tablets could help them to “bulk up”.
According to Dr. Jenny O’ Dea, young boys are more [...]
September 21, 2009 | Posted in
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More than 37 million Americans suffer from nasal congestion, sinus pressure, cough and postnasal drip that accompany sinusitis, as per a recently published review. Though medical practitioners usually prescribe antibiotics for reliving acute sinusitis after its development following a chest cold, a combination of steroid nasal spray and antibiotic therapy is the best option when [...]
September 20, 2009 | Posted in
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According to Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) executive director Keith Kaiser, Mayweather Sr.’s claims that Pacquiao was on steroids is not entirely true.
According to Kaiser, the athletic body never fails to conduct a steroid testing on Pacquiao, his opponents or anyone who plays in Nevada.
Pacquiao has always passed every steroid test did to him.
The commission [...]
September 19, 2009 | Posted in
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