Athletes using performance enhancing drugs need to be beware
Scientists at the University of Nottingham are leading the field for developing a new, improved detection system that could be used for identifying and preventing use of performance-enhancing drugs among athletes.
The research was led by Professor Colin Snape in the University’s School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering and published recently in Rapid Communications in [...]
Identification of new side effects of performance enhancing drugs
New and severe side effects of performance enhancing drugs have been identified and revealed by a new Australian study by a team of Southern Cross University (SCU) scientists.
The study led by Dr Robert Weatherby revealed that the use of anabolic steroids may significantly raise susceptibility to viral infections and cancers. This study also raised doubts [...]
Athletes on performance enhancing drugs likely to abuse alcohol
College athletes making use of performance enhancing drugs are at a higher risk of abusing alcohol and other recreational drugs than those not making a use of them, as per a new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Dr. Robert J. Pandina, study co-author and director of the Center of Alcohol Studies [...]
Golf’s first case of suspension due to performance-enhancing drugs
Seasoned golf player Doug Barron recently received a one-year suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug. The 40-year-old was the first to receive a suspension from the PGA Tour due to performance-enhancing drugs.
PGA Tour is the organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. The organization is based in Ponte [...]
No Steroid News - Where have they gone?
It has been many months since we have heard the word “steroids” in the world of professional sports, a fact that would have obviously brought many smiles on the faces of doping and sporting officials. It was way back in February this year that some anonymous sources reported that Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) had made use [...]
Jones finds it her mission to talk about steroids
Marion Jones, the previous Olympic sprinter who pleaded guilty to utilizing steroids during the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, now gives inspirational talks to colleges and universities. Lately, she was a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business Initiative series on race in sports.
She ensures it her mission to talk about steroids [...]
Steroids testing in high school still effective even if fewer students are tested
The Texas Legislature has the biggest steroids testing program among high school students. It is also perhaps the most expensive steroid program for high school students.
According to Mark Cousins, officer-in-charge of the state’s steroid testing programs for all high school athletes, out of the 45,193 students tested, only 19 turned out positive.
Anti-steroids activists believe that [...]
Possible side effects of performance enhancing drugs
There are more serious side effects of performance enhancing drugs than what were previously thought, as per a new Australian study by a team of Southern Cross University (SCU) scientists.
The study, led by Dr Robert Weatherby, revealed that the use of anabolic steroids could possibly raise the susceptibility level associated with cancers and viral infections. [...]
Ethical differences in testosterone doping tests cannot be ignored
When a research was published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, surprising facts in relation to testosterone doping tests came out. It was found that the presently implemented steroid tests to caught sportsmen using testosterone or its alternatives are of no use due to the fact that ethnical differences among sportsmen [...]
Steroids demand increases in Sydney this year
A number of steroid busts and smuggling have been recently plaguing the news this past few weeks.
Most of these cases happened in Sydney Airport, the most recently reported was that of a 36-year old woman caught to possess vials of testosterone and testosterone enanthate hidden inside a child’s doll. The woman reportedly came from Lebanon, [...]
