Baseball chief welcomes stiffer online pharmacy laws
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MLB Commissioner Bud Selig tells Congress that baseball execs "fully support" Congress's attempts to make it harder for Americans to get drugs online without a valid prescription.
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A Cabinet member's role in pressing lawmakers to back the Medicare prescription drug law last year prompted the House ethics committee to recommend changing a 200-year-old rule allowing the president's top appointees access to the House floor.
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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman  John McCain on Saturday threatened to introduce legislation  requiring more stringent drug testing if Major League Baseball  does not impose tougher rules on steroid use by January.
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Major league baseball players agreed to a stricter policy for steroids and other drugs that will include more tests and tougher penalties.
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Motivated by mounting medical costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to embrace a seemingly simple way to save billions of dollars a year: prescribe medications online.
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Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud   Selig sent an open letter to baseball fans on Thursday, telling   them he will not tolerate the use of human growth hormone or   any other performance-enhancing drugs.
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SALINAS, Calif. -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said in meetings Monday that he would accept government intervention on steroid testing if the players&#39; association refuses to change the current rules, which run for two more years.
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Baseball World Anti-Doping Agency chief John Fahey criticized Major League Baseball yesterday, saying the sport was resisting George Mitchell's recommendation to transfer drug testing to an independent organization. Fahey also challenged baseball's policy on human growth hormone, saying a scientifically valid and effective test for HGH exists. Testing has been used at the Olympics, and storing blood is a "scientifically ...
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One of the most influential baseball minds of the last 40 years contends that measures used to demonstrate the baseball wide effects of performance-enhancing drugs are the wrong place to look.
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Canada may have to toughen up rules on  Internet pharmacies' sales of medicines to the United States,  Industry Minister David Emerson said on Friday, amid public  concerns of shortages or price spikes despite controls.
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PHOENIX, United States  - Major League Baseball Players Association chief Don Fehr said that discussions have started with owners upon the framework for a tougher anti-doping policy that could be ready next season.
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Baseball&#39;s players union must step up to diffuse the growing drug-enhancement scandal that has gripped the nation&#39;s pastime.
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Major League Baseball's new policy, spurred by controveries over a federal inquiry, also bans human growth hormone.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association announced Tuesday it would work toward a new agreement with owners for tougher steroid testing.
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The nation's pharmacy giants are taking measures to prevent people, especially young people, from using such common over-the-counter medications as cough syrups to get high.
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One of the nation&#39;s leading cardiovascular medical researchers has issued a call for less aggressive direct-to-consumer advertising and better safety assurances of medications in a special article posted online today by JAMA because of its relevance to
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As players gathered in Phoenix for their annual union executive board meeting, baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said that he would welcome help from Sen. John McCain in ridding the sport of performance-enhancing drugs.