Trainer of jumps racehorses faces long ban

Howard Johnson, a high-profile trainer of jumps racehorses, has been charged with doping and horse welfare offences by the British Horseracing Authority.
The trainer has been a leading name at the Cheltenham Festival in 2005 and has been charged three separate offences of administering the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone to his horses.
From Guardian.co.uk:

A significant ban from [...]

Questions raised by Congress on testimony

MLB (Major League Baseball) and union officials may have misled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in context of the amount of steroid use among players, according to a report by the New York Times.
The testimony of Major League Baseball officials was completely accurate, as per Deputy Commissioner Rob Manfred.
From Espnstar.com:

“It’s clear that [...]

Ads for anabolic steroid providers find a place on Law enforcement magazine

Police authorities may forever be claiming about efforts to curb the popularity of anabolic steroids but pages of a magazine written just for law enforcement were recently found to be all filled with ads for anabolic steroid providers.
An advertisement in the December issue of New Jersey COPS, a publication read by officers across the state [...]

Hoboken’s public safety director named as steroid task force member

State Attorney General Paula Dow recently assembled a task force for investigating the use of anabolic steroids among enforcement officers in the state of New Jersey, as per the Star-Ledger.
The task force will consist of eight members, including Hoboken’s public safety director, Angel Alicea.
From NJ.com:

Alicea will aide the task force in examining the effect of [...]

Sports expert advocates for openness to creatine

Pediatricians should not condemn all performance enhancing drugs, according to Dr. Gregory L. Landry, a pediatrician who specializes in sports medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Landry remarked that physicians should observe a more neutral approach toward creatine as it has been associated with little risk than toward more dangerous substances such as anabolic steroids.
From [...]

Terry Newton sacked by Wakefield

Terry Newton, the hooker from Great Britain, was sacked by Wakefield Trinity after it emerged that the blood test bringing disgrace to the hooker was anything but random.
The former Great Britain hooker’s two-year ban was described by Andy Parkinson, the chief executive of UK Anti-Doping as “a landmark in the fight [...]

Rani Yadav caught doping

The race walker from India, Rani Yadav, has tested positive for the steroid nandrolone. Yadav, thus, became the third person at the Commonwealth Games to be caught doping.
She has been provisionally suspended from the event, according to the Commonwealth Games Federation.
From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

Yadav could be banned for two years if found guilty. Over the previous [...]

Marta Dominguez testifies on doping charges

The World steeplechase champion, Marta Dominguez, recently denied any kind of involvement in doping after she testified before a judge in the Spanish anti-doping investigation Operation Galgo.
Dominguez told reporters “I am innocent and I will return to competition as soon as I recover from my pregnancy,” after spending 2 ½ hours in a [...]

Heroin or anabolic steroids lesser evils than alcohol

Alcohol is the most dangerous drug in the United Kingdom by a considerable margin and beats heroin and anabolic steroids, as per a recently published authoritative study.
The study is believed to have the potential of reopening calls for the drugs classification system to be scrapped and a concerted campaign launched against drink.
From Guardian.co.uk:

Overall, [...]

French patients sue over weight loss drug associated to deaths

In what could prove to be the biggest French healthcare scandal of the decade, patients taking a controversial French weight loss drug causing the deaths of hundreds of people have filed a criminal lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant Servier.
The medical world is reeling from a French government health warning that advised people who took the [...]