After a meeting with two members of Congress that resulted in an apparent commitment to commence the collection of blood samples for the purposes of HGH testing, the NFLPA has made a proposal regarding an HGH testing protocol.
Details of the proposal are included in an item posted at ProPlayerInsiders.com, an official licensee of [...]
November 26, 2011 | Posted in
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New Jersey Attorney General’s office has recently introduced some steps to rein in the use of anabolic steroids among law enforcement officers.
As per a news release, Attorney General Paula Dow said, “With these reforms in place, users will officially be on notice, prosecutors will be better armed to prosecute abusers and hopefully [...]
September 23, 2011 | Posted in
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Attorney General Paula T. Dow has introduced a number of reforms designed to curtail the improper prescription, distribution, possession and usage of anabolic steroids, Human Growth Hormone (HGH), and Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) among law enforcement personnel and state and local employees.
“It is important that we strengthen oversight, regulation and investigation in order [...]
September 19, 2011 | Posted in
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The Florida Department of Health has revealed why the Treasure Coast Specialty Pharmacy, Inc. was raided.
It was disclosed that the pharmacy, between October 1, 2010 and March 31, 2011, dispensed “excessive and inappropriate quantities of anabolic-androgenic steroids, a Schedule III controlled substance, oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance and a human grown hormone (HGH), [...]
July 22, 2011 | Posted in
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Performance enhancing drugs that are banned in Olympic sport are being produced and made available on sale in large quantities in China, close to the sites where the Games will be staged.
HGH (human growth hormone) poses the biggest threat, as it is difficult to detect unless tested for within 24 hours of being [...]
June 2, 2011 | Posted in
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Randy Velarde, the former Major League Baseball player, recently testified that he used drugs he believed were human growth hormone obtained from home run king Barry Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson.
Velarde told of meeting trainer Greg Anderson in parking lots where Anderson injected him in the arm when called by prosecutors as a witness in [...]
May 20, 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 [...]
April 2, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
February 22, 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 [...]
February 16, 2011 | Posted in
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A test developed by a British scientist to detect human growth hormone (HGH) abuse by athletes is facing a race against time to be ready due to lack of funds.
Human growth hormone is popular worldwide among top athletes and has been dubbed the “drug of champions”.
From Guardian.co.uk:
Professor Peter Sonksen and a team at Southampton University [...]
February 7, 2011 | Posted in
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