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There is a link between use of anabolic-androgenic steroids and reduced mental health later in life. This is the main conclusion of a new study on elite male strength athletes that researchers from the University of Gothenburg recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Twenty per cent of the subjects in the study admitted steroid use. The study is published by CERA, which is the University of Gothenburg's centre for education and research on addiction. Together with...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: STSI) is pleased to announce that its Anatabloc® dietary supplement has qualified as an Informed-Sport Registered Product by HFL Sport Science, part of LGC Group and a recognized world leader in doping control for almost 50 years. This qualification permits Star Scientific to use HFL's "Informed-Sport" and "Informed-Choice" trademarks on Registered Products, providing assurance that these products have...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been awarded BIOTECanada's Gold Leaf Company of the Year Award for 2013. The prestigious Gold Leaf Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, April 23 at the BIO International Convention in Chicago. Several thousand guests will be in attendance, representing the global life sciences community. "We are honored to be recognized by our national industry peers...
NES-ZIONA, Israel, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PROLOR Biotech, Inc. (NYSE MKT: PBTH) today announced that it has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a new patent application covering the company's long-acting CTP-enhanced human growth hormone (hGH-CTP). Upon issuance, the new patent will provide PROLOR with additional intellectual property protection that covers methods for decreasing body fat in humans through the use of hGH-CTP...
DNA Sports Performance Lab introduces legal, all natural bio-identical performance-enhancers using IGF Compound with proven results including overall health, that give professional athletes and performance enthusiasts a legitimate alternative to the illegal or banned synthetic options that are currently destroying lives and dreams. Miami, FL (PRWEB) February 04, 2013 DNA Sports Performance Lab, founded and operated by a former (due to injury) Major League Baseball player and pitcher. DNA...
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Everyone knows professional athletes are always looking for something to give them an "edge" over the competition. Anti-doping agencies have had to work overtime to prevent many athletes from gaining an unfair advantage through the use of banned substances like recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) injections. But in September of 2012 at the prestigious Obesity Society's 30(th) Annual Scientific Meeting, a group of some of the most renowned...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced it has finalized a settlement agreement with the U.S. government, 49 states and the District of Columbia related to previously disclosed investigations. Amgen will pay approximately $612 million to resolve its civil liability related to certain promotional practices related to the drugs Aranesp(®) (darbepoetin alfa), EPOGEN(®) (epoetin alfa), NEUPOGEN(® )(Filgrastim), Neulasta(®...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The use of performance enhancing drugs, or doping, is a public health issue, not a sporting problem, as had been previously thought. "If we believe that around 3% of high school boys in the U.S. are taking a steroid or growth hormone, then that's a public health issue," said Dr. Timothy Armstrong of the World Health Organization (WHO). "Substance abuse in any shape or form has a physical and mental health aspect to it. The WHO,...
Over the last 10 years, the GH-2004 team, which is based the University of Southampton, has been developing a test for Growth Hormone misuse in sport with funding from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and US Anti-Doping Agency and with support from UK Anti-Doping. The test, developed by scientists at the University of Southampton, King's College London and University of Kent at Canterbury, is based on the measurement of two proteins in the blood, insulin-like growth factor-I and the...
VIENNA, Austria and NES-ZIONA, Israel, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PROLOR Biotech, Inc. (NYSE MKT: PBTH) today announced that researchers at ENEA 2012, the 15th Annual Congress of the European NeuroEndocrine Association, will present data from the company's Phase II trial of its long acting human growth hormone, hGH-CTP, in growth hormone deficient adults. The data, which were previously reported by the company, confirm that hGH-CTP has the potential to be administered once...
