Blood or urine? HGH testing feud simmers
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Olympic athletes soon will have their blood tested for human growth hormone, but the NFL and baseball officials instead are embracing the unproven concept of urine testing in their bid to stop use of the performance-enhancing drug.
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It takes a team of medical examiners to cry foul on a silver medal. The problem? No one can be sure if the person who won the prize is a man or a woman. In Bodyhack. <img
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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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New evidence is raising questions about the tests used to prescribe the breast cancer drug Herceptin, which was initially seen as a model for tailored medicine.
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SATURDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Earlier this fall, the researcher who first identified the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test -- used for nearly two decades to screen men for prostate cancer -- announced the test had become &quot;all but useless.&quot;
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NEW YORK  - Tall men seem to have a heightened risk of developing an enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a new study shows. Advancing age and high fasting blood sugar levels also raise the odds of BPH, whereas a greater systolic blood pressure -- the first number in the blood pressure reading - may indicate a lower risk.
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By Elliott Almond, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 14--Organizers of the Tour of California cycling race have taken the unusual step of ensuring all tests at this year's event include a screen for the blood-boosting drug EPO.
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Dr. Andre Berger sees himself as a pioneer. Where others in the medical community believe injections of human growth hormone should be given to adults in only rare cases, Berger believes it is a crucial part of keeping people young and vital.
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NEW YORK  - The A1C test, the usual way of measuring long-range diabetes control, is not reliable for people who are undergoing hemodialysis, a new study shows.
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A haemophiliac exposed to contaminated blood products over 20 years ago gives evidence at an independent inquiry.
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Testing for a protein in the urine of pregnant women accurately predicts whether they will develop preeclampsia, a potentially deadly condition that affects one in 20 U.S. pregnancies, a study said on Tuesday.
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A new study conducted in rats by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School suggests that the misdiagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) combined with prescription drug use in children may lead
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Â· Thousands of women urged to contact doctors Â· 44 kits could have given bogus negative results
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Olympic champion Tyler Hamilton's blood samples showed different results &#151; one positive, one negative, his Swiss cycling team said Thursday.
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SUNDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- For men, flagging potency can be a red flag that something's not right in the cardiovascular system. And experts say men who rush to fix the problem with impotence drugs may be ignoring a bigger threat to their health.
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A US scientist has developed a 'double-barrelled' syringe could make blood tests more reliable.
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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.