Drug Testing Doesn&#39;t Always tell the Whole Story
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Last December, medical school researchers came to a professional meeting in Puerto Rico with a sense of urgency. Federal drug regulators were reviewing unpublished data from their studies on
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Today, confidentiality is almost a mantra in medicine, but it is not absolute.
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The report on performance-enhancing drug use in baseball outlines a general road map for improving its drug testing system, but prescribes no timetable and few specific directives.
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Experts raise concerns that flawed analysis of drug levels in corpses could affect the outcomes of court cases and inquests.
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Academic institutions and researchers are often seen as impartial actors in drug trials, but sometimes independence comes with strings attached.
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A novel study may provide an  answer to a question that has puzzled drug abuse researchers  for years -- namely, why someone would try a drug like heroin  for the first time knowing that it is highly addictive.
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A study released on Thursday in the Journal of Adolescent Health challenges the deeply held, or at least hopeful, notion that high school drug testing is a deterrent.
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Glue-sniffing and other forms of solvent abuse are being overlooked in the fight against drugs, a report finds.
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U.S. lawmakers and health officials  are moving to give more independence to an office that reviews  drug safety, but some experts say ensuring medicines are  studied after they hit the market is more important than the  bureaucratic pecking order.
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Scientists pay crack cocaine addicts to test an ADHD drug to treat their addiction. They're not sure it works, but we're pretty sure the volunteers are willing.
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How close are we to winning the war on drugs? It's hard to say, because the statistics on drug use are so murky. Now researchers are trying to fix that
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The report is likely to intensify a debate about the safety of the nationÂs drug supply and the adequacy of government oversight.
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News of the Romanian international&#39;s failed test broke on October 18 but for several days there was some conjecture over whether the drug was cocaine or, as Mutu claimed, a substance designed to enhance sexual performance.
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Temporary increases in HIV levels do not generally mean a drug losing its effectiveness, research finds.
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IT&#39;S HARD TO SEE how the country&#39;s drug safety agency will emerge unscathed from a string of failures -- nor should it. Devastating scandals, touching millions of lives, demand a tough appraisal of a fumbling agency that has lost its way.
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Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants.
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It is a strange time in baseball. The announcement of Hall of Fame voting is due today, and the issue of performance-enhancing drugs was part of the thought process for voters in determining which of the boxes they checked off. Perhaps it wasn't quite as important as statistics and performance accolades, but, unfortunately, these are the times we live in ...