Sports doping seen among pre-teens
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NEW YORK  - Just over 1 percent of eleven-year-olds admit to using drugs to boost their athletic performance, a new study from France shows. Furthermore, four years later, 3 percent said they had used doping agents at least once during the previous month.
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When his positive dope test was confirmed, Adrian Mutu forgot to blame someone for spiking his drinks. Odd this, because athletics, swimming and cycling have taught us that
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THENS, Aug. 18 - It all started with two Greek athletes missing mandatory drug tests on Aug. 12, then appearing, hours later, at a local hospital with injuries and a story about a motorcycle accident. Konstantinos ...
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NEW YORK  - Most adolescents do not get enough exercise each day or maintain a healthy diet, according to researchers who analyzed the diet and exercise behaviors of 878, adolescents, 11 to 15 years old, and found that nearly 80 percent had multiple physical activity and dietary risk behaviors.
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Texas high school students yearning for athletic fame or a chiseled physique are easily obtaining and using steroids as many coaches look the other way and parents seem unaware, a Dallas Morning News investigation has found.
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Pediatricians may think they know whether a teenage patient is using alcohol or drugs and to what extent, but a new study finds doctors greatly misjudge the problem.
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It&#39;s not just a cliché, sex and drugs often do go together. A new survey finds teens link sexual activity with substance abuse. The study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse is basically sending out a warning to parents that if their ...
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NEW YORK  - Aerobic and anaerobic exercise capacity is decreased in children and adolescents with so-called juvenile idiopathic arthritis or JIA, according to the results of two studies by Dutch investigators.
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NEW YORK  - Boys who were repeatedly  exposed to cocaine while in their mother's womb are more likely  than girls or non-exposed children to be hyperactive or have  other problem behaviors at six or seven years of age, new study  findings show.
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Kids who enter puberty early are more likely to use and abuse tobacco, alcohol and marijuana than those who physically mature later, mostly because their window of opportunity for experimentation is wider, researchers have found.
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It's that time of year: Kids hit the sports fields running, and often hobble back off. Back to school means back to organized sports for more than 30 million children and teenagers &#151; and roughly 2.5 million emergency-room visits during the year for resulting injuries.
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The world governing body for athletics will consider lowering from three to two the number of drug test no-shows before an athlete is considered to have committed a doping offense.
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The use of anabolic steroids is becoming common as young men use the drugs to improve body image, experts warn.
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A new study in the journal, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, looked at 53 children aged 4 to 14 who had been diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder).
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Youngsters who begin puberty at an early age are more likely to experiment with and abuse alcohol, tobacco and marijuana than kids who start puberty at a later age, says an Australian study in the September issue of the journal Pediatrics.
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Devastated by doping, a sport looks to youth to revive its fortunes
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Even elite athletes find it tough to work out: a new study shows that a surprising number of them suffer from exercise-induced asthma