Athletes 'risk lives' with drugs
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Athletes who take untested illegal drugs to aid performance are "playing with their lives", MPs are told.
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NEW YORK  - Athletes who take growth hormone in an effort to enhance their performance risk developing diabetes, two doctors from the UK warn in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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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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Major League Baseball, the NFL, NBA  and NHL will join forces with the United States Olympic  Committee (USOC) to combat the use of performance enhancing  drugs in sport.
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UK Athletics (UKA) on Thursday launched a review of its anti-doping policy that could result in athletes who are caught using performance-enhancing drugs being banned from representing Great Britain for life.
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'Heart in the mouth' moments during a big football match may literally put fans' lives at risk, research shows.
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Scientists and European regulators are now questioning the safety of other pain relievers like Vioxx, saying these medications also might raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Just eleven days into the 2004 Olympics in Athens, we have already been confronted with the seemingly common problem of drug use within sport. So much so, in fact, that it has been dubbed "The Gene Games" by chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's ethical issues review panel, Thomas Murray.    In a recent interview conducted by the New York Times, Murray talks about the impact of drugs in sport, and what effect they have on the athletes involved.
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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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Sports doctors are often asked to compromise their care so athletes can return to their sport, say researchers.
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The Mail on Sunday reports that a Premiership player tests positive for a "banned substance".
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The central figure in the burgeoning steroids-in-sports scandal says he provided performance-enhancing drugs to numerous world-class athletes, including track and field star Marion Jones, world record sprinter Tim Montgomery and former NFL linebacker Bill
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Gary Player's comments on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in golf draw the ire of his fellow South Africans on Thursday.
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Nine-times major winner Gary Player says he knows some golfers are taking performance-enhancing drugs.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The second medalist at the Olympic Games has tested positive for an illegal drug and been stripped of a medal.
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Sudden death in athletes is more common than you might think. What to do about it, however, remains a dilemma.
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com) and Ben Goessling (bgoessling@mndaily.com). Amid speculation that the painkiller Bextra will join Vioxx as drugs recalled from the market, University athletes are still using