Detection of HGH Met With Skepticism
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Despite millions of dollars in research over the last decade, anti-doping authorities are uncertain if they will be able to deter use of HGH at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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NEW YORK  - Measuring blood levels of a chemical transporter for vitamin A may be useful in estimating a person's "intraabdominal fat," a type of fat inside the abdomen that it not visible, but still adversely affects health, new research shows.
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Gene Upshaw does not believe there is a significant amount of undetected use of human growth hormone, butÃÂ is receptive to any proposed changes to the steroid-testing program.
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Athletes were tested for human growth hormone for the first time during the Athens Olympics, World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound said Friday.
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The common PSA test used for detecting prostate is under fire by the pioneer of the test. Dr. Thomas Stamey says the test is all but &quot;useless&quot;, however, many in the medical field will not agree with Dr.
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New data are due out on a promising cholesterol drug. But there are doubters.
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Les donnÃ©es indiquent une augmentation de la rÃ©ponse sÃ©rologique, virologique et biochimique aprÃ¨s 144 semaines de traitement sur des patients naÃ¯fs atteints de l&#39;hÃ©patite B antigÃ¨ne positif.
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Baseball investigator George Mitchell , also a director for the Red Sox, yesterday denied providing information for a story that Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd used human growth hormone. Before Game 7 Sunday, Byrd acknowledged using HGH after the San Francisco Chronicle reported he spent nearly $25,000 on the drug and syringes from 2002-05 - before HGH was banned by ...
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More than a decade ago, a howl went up about the way new drugs were tested. Virtually all trials were limited to white males, even though some medical differences based on race are widely acknowledged.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a fast track review of testosterone patches for women with low sex drive, despite concerns about insufficient data and potentially misleading marketing by their manufacturer Proctor &amp; Gamble, claim two
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NEW YORK  - Parents of a short child who  believe growth hormone therapy will better his or her social  life may be mistaken, new study findings suggest.
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Parents of a short child who believe growth hormone therapy will better his or her social life may be mistaken, new study findings suggest.
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Sport's top anti-doping official hailed  the 2004 Olympics as a "great success" Friday and revealed that  one in 10 drugs samples taken in Athens had been tested for  human growth hormone (HGH).
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NEW YORK - Today at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference, AtheroGenics was met with pointed skepticism over trial results for its drug, AGI-1067.
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Scientists have identified a protein in urine that has shown some effectiveness as a diagnostic test for breast cancer. But breast cancer experts who have seen the study, to be published soon
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NEW YORK  - Children who are short for no  apparent medical reason get a boost in height from growth  hormone shots, the results of a clinical trial show.
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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward.