The game of baseball was under close scrutiny after Mark McGwire made a belated confession of steroid use. The confession was marked with crocodile tears and disclaimers.
Though it may not be enough to give a new hope to the die-hard fans, faces of many have been saved from further embarrassment as the confession puts an [...]
January 31, 2010 | Posted in
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Efforts have been made by researchers in the quest to optimize the effectiveness of the hormone, progesterone, for treating traumatic brain injury.
As part of the efforts, two abstracts summarizing Emory research on the hormone were presented at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience (SFN) meeting in Chicago.
A multisite phase III clinical trial known as ProTECT III [...]
January 30, 2010 | Posted in
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Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have identified a form of Vitamin B1 that can be a new and effective form of treatment for one of the leading causes of blindness in the world.
In a paper appearing in an issue of the journal Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, the involved [...]
January 29, 2010 | Posted in
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In a recent meeting between the face of the Bears franchise between 1965 and the early ’70s was shared by middle linebacker Dick Butkus and running back Gale Sayers, it was revealed that there was no place of animosity or jealousy towards each other.
From Chicagotribune.com:
These days, Butkus is most passionate about his anti- steroid program [...]
January 29, 2010 | Posted in
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According to news presented on October 18 at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Philadelphia, a drug that was previously approved for treating non-Hodgkin’s B cell lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis has been hailed as effective for treating severe ANCA-associated vasculitis as effectively as cyclophosphamide, the present standard therapy.
The drug, Rituxan, can [...]
January 28, 2010 | Posted in
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A protein considered to be useful for regulation of expression of androgen receptors can be termed as the new focal point for staging and treating testosterone-fueled prostate cancer, as per researchers from the Medical College of Georgia.
The study was able to find that levels of the protein, βarrestin2, were lower in certain prostate cancer cells [...]
January 28, 2010 | Posted in
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According to researchers at the Medical College of Georgia, estrogen can halt the condition of stroke damage by inactivating a tumor-suppressing protein that is known to prevent many forms of cancer.
Limor Raz, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the MCG School of Graduate Studies, said that the research suggested that estrogen suppresses p53 after stroke leading [...]
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Teriparatide, which is a synthetic form of the human parathyroid hormone, is a better form of treating glucocorticoid-induced (OP) than alendronate, as per a recent study.
The involved researchers found out that patients suffering from glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis and treated with teriparatide for a period of 36 months show significant improvements in terms of BMD (bone mineral [...]
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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According to a U.S. Study, use of steroids by teenagers can have a long-term effect on their brains besides flipping the brain switch for aggression lasting as many as two years.
The involved researchers noted that anabolic steroids can cause permanent changes, a fact that was based on results experienced with hamsters.
It is worth noting here [...]
January 26, 2010 | Posted in
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According to a research from the UNC’s School of Medicine, anabolic steroid treatment can have the potential to improve surgical repair of massive or recurrent tears of the shoulder’s rotator cuff tendons.
This study, which appeared in an issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, was led by Dr. Spero Karas, assistant professor of orthopedic [...]
January 26, 2010 | Posted in
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