The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) has acknowledged a ban of two years imposed on amateur rugby player Brendan Bunyan for the possession and attempted use of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) by the Australian Rugby Union (ARU). A package was seized at the International Mail Sydney Gateway Facility by the Australian Customs and Border Protection [...]
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Seven Britons among 26 people have been arrested following an investigation by Spanish police into a suspected dope trafficking ring. The police seized 700,000 doses of performance enhancing drugs and counterfeit medicines as well as 10,000 vials of human growth hormone. From Telegraph.co.uk: Spanish police said the Britons, who have not been named but are [...]
June 21, 2011 | Posted in
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Beijing Olympics would play host to the cleanest Olympics in living memory, according to a consultant physician who was medical officer to the Irish team at the 1996 Olympics. Dr Conor O’Brien, Ireland’s leading expert on drugs in sport, said, “There is well-founded optimism that we will no longer have the spectre of the last [...]
April 2, 2011 | Posted in
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Team New Zealand sank to a new low in a bid for ousting the Swiss Alinghi syndicate from the America’s Cup by suggesting that illegal performance enhancing drugs had been used by some members of the sailing team. The allegation was without formal substantiation and based on findings of a private detective, an ex-policeman, who [...]
March 11, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
February 25, 2011 | Posted in
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The most successful biotech firm in the world, Genetech, is ready to pay $50 million (£31.2 million) in fines to settle government charges that it illegally marketed a human growth hormone (HGH) during the 1980s. The company would pay a criminal fine and restitution for bringing an end to inquiry into allegations that it promoted [...]
February 16, 2011 | Posted in
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Sportsmen on injectable growth hormone and expecting dramatic muscle mass and performance improvements may be left disappointed, according to a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University in Sweden. It was suggested that administration of GH, in no way, leads to muscle mass and performance gains. From News-medical.net: Doping in sport using growth hormone [...]
December 21, 2010 | Posted in
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Des-acyl ghrelin, a form of ghrelin (the appetite-stimulating hormone found in the body), was found useful for offering relief to patients afflicted with muscle atrophy. This finding was disclosed by results of an animal study that were presented at the Endocrine Society’s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Study co-author Andrea Graziani, PhD, molecular biologist [...]
November 17, 2010 | Posted in
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A Chinese drug company, GeneScience Pharmaceutical, and its chief executive have agreed to plead guilty to charges of illegally distributing human growth hormone in the United States, according to filings in United States District Court in Rhode Island. The company that identifies itself as the most profitable biopharmaceutical company of China had distributed the growth [...]
November 3, 2010 | Posted in
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Victor Conte, the BALCO founder, remarked that the recently formulated anti-doping fight that is symbolized by collection of blood samples from minor league players is fundamentally flawed. It was further remarked by Conte that players will be aware of blood tests in advance and this appears more to him as ‘announced’ or ‘IQ’ testing instead [...]
August 12, 2010 | Posted in
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