Archive for November, 2011

Wayne Bradshaw, the disgraced former Wanneroo mayor, has been banned from practicing as a doctor for five months. Bradshaw has also been told that he could never again prescribe anabolic steroids or any stimulant drugs to patients.

Dr Bradshaw, a controversial figure from the 1990s political landscape, made headlines over his role in “Wanneroo Inc”, was being found guilty of soliciting a $20,000 bribe.

From Au.news.yahoo.com:

The brother of former Liberal MLA John Bradshaw, he was struck off the medical practitioners’ register eight months after his conviction when the WA Medical Board decided that the doctor was unfit to practise.

After an unsuccessful attempt to become registered again in 1997, he incurred the wrath of the Medical Board when it was discovered he was working with an acupuncturist and naturopath doing minor facial procedures – a move the board warned could be a breach of the Medical Act.

Dr Bradshaw would have to agree to a permanent ban on him prescribing anabolic steroids and to ongoing audits of his practice, a spokeswoman for AHPRA said.

Matima Molefe, the boxing featherweight champion from South Africa, has been banned for a period of two years from the sport.

Molefe was banned over anabolic steroids, according to a statement by the Institute for Drug-Free Sport recently.

From Iol.co.za:

The institute said Molefe tested positive for the drugs – metabolites of the anabolic agent Nandrolone – after a featherweight title fight in May this year.

The banned substances were found in Molefe’s urine sample, taken by doping control officials on May 29 after the title fight in East London.

CEO Khalid Galant said latest figures showed anabolic steroid doping among boxers was becoming a trend.

“Due to the number of adverse analytical findings that we have experienced in boxing over the last two to three years, we have increased our testing and anti-doping education to professional boxing,” Galant said.

If you have been looking for a power-packed drug to enhance muscle mass and stamina over a continuing period of time, Halotestin is the drug for you. This anabolic steroid is one of the most successful and potent performance enhancing drugs embraced by professional sportsmen to stay ahead of the battle.

The chemical formula of Halotestin is C₂₀H₂₉FO₃ and its chemical name is androst-4-en-3-one, 9-fluoro-11,17- dihydroxy-17-methyl-, (11β,17β)-. The ingredients of this steroid are lactose, sorbic acid, sucrose, corn starch, calcium stearate, FD&C Yellow No. 5, and tragacanth. The pre-contest drug is not only safe but also easily accessible over the Internet.

In the world of healthcare, Halotestin is recommended to treat symptoms or deficiency of endogenous testosterone and treating palliation of androgen-responsive recurrent mammary cancer during the postmenopausal period of women. It is also recommended to women diagnosed with a hormone-dependent tumor. In the world of bodybuilding, Halotestin is used to enhance the levels of stamina, muscle mass, muscle function, performance, and muscle size.

When used in doses of 25-50 mg per day for body building purposes, Halotestin helps sportsmen stay ahead of the rat race without any hurdles. The recommended dosage for women with breast cancer is 10-40 mg per day and 5-20 mg per day for hypogonadal males. The drug should not be abused else it can lead to side effects like headache, anxiety, libido changes, and depression.

Juan Manuel Marquez, the World lightweight champion, is defending his new strength and conditioning coach, Angel Hernandez, after reports came out revealing shady past of Hernandez.

Hernandez was known as Angel Heredia when he admitted to a San Francisco court in May 2008 that he supplied performance enhancing drugs to Olympians, including Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery.

From Abs-cbnnews.com:

In a conference call with RingTV and other boxing media, Marquez defended Hernandez and said he has no knowledge of his new nutritionist’s dealings with steroids.

“I didn’t find out any of this other stuff until it was written over the last couple of days. It was big news to me,” Marquez said.

“I just knew that he had trained a lot of elite and world class athletes before I met him. We talked about what we needed to do. I was very happy with what he told me that I needed to do,” Marquez said, adding that Hernandez has been “a very professional guy.”

“If they want to do whatever doping or drug testing they want to do, Olympic-style, or whatever they want to do, I’ll do it. I’m prepared,” Marquez said.

Halotestin – Best drug for treating testosterone deficiencyWhen it comes to treating deficiency of the male sex hormone, testosterone, there are very few names like Halotestin that command respect and admiration of professional sportsmen, gym instructors, sport coaches, and medical practitioners all over the world.

Halotestin, also known as Fluoxymesterone, is admired worldwide for its ability of stimualting normal growth and development of male sex organs and characteristics. This potent drug is also routinely recommended to young men with delayed puberty and women with advanced breast cancer. By releasing erythropoietin from the kidneys, Halotestin promotes the natural production of red blood cells that means that the body is in a better position than ever to carry oxygen to organs and body parts.

This synthetic anabolic steroid with potent androgenic properties is used by sportsmen for promoting enhancements in terms of aggression, exercise performance, body strength, muscle mass, and stamina in as short as six to eight weeks. The fact that any one can buy legal Halotestin at an affordable price from a steroid pharmacy dealing in legal anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs means that sportsmen have endless reasons to smile when they choose Halotestin.

For bodybuilding and muscle strength purposes, the daily recommended dose of Halotestin is 25-50 mg. In order to optimize its benefits during a steroid cycle of 6-8 weeks, oral Halotestin can be stacked with Winstrol, Anavar, and Anadrol while injectable Halotestin can be stacked with as Testosterone cypionate, Testosterone enanthate, and Testosterone suspension. Abuse of this anabolic steroid can lead to gynecomastia, water retention, reduced libido, nausea, anger, depression, or allergic reactions.

The ex-president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, said George Laraque’s allegations about performance enhancing drugs in the NHL reinforce what he himself said six years ago.

In November 2005, Pound said as many as a third of NHL players were using some kind of performance-enhancing drug.

From Sports.yahoo.com:

Pound has been an International Olympic Committee member for 33 years. He’ll be inducted into the Canada’s Sports Hall Of Fame in Calgary as a builder Tuesday alongside hockey star Ray Bourque, CFL kicker Lui Passaglia, soccer player Andrea Neil, triathlete Peter Reid and Paralympian Lauren Woolstencroft.

While president of WADA from its inception in 1999 to 2007, Pound publicly singled out sports organizations he thought turned a blind eye to doping by their athletes.

Laraque, who retired in 2010 after playing almost 700 career games, writes in “The Story of the NHL’s Unlikeliest Tough Guy” that the NHL only began policing drugs in his final years in the league.

“Anybody who pays attention to these things already knew that,” Pound said Monday from his Montreal law office. “The only organization in denial was the NHL.”

Local organizers are grappling with rampant doping after 18 participants tested positive for banned steroids at the ongoing Kabaddi World Cup in the northern state of Punjab.

Kabaddi is a seven-person game that involves “raiding” the opponents’ side, WITH tackling, and wrestling.

From Taiwannews.com.tw:

Punjab sports director Pargat Singh was quoted in Thursday’s edition of The Times of India as saying that local organizers wanted to find a solution to the menace since “the tournament’s reputation is at stake.”

Three players tested positive from the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, two from Norway, and one each from Italy, Argentina, Spain and Germany.

The doping count has now gone up to 18.

The use of a combination of steroid with N-acetylcysteine in improving survival in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis was assessed by a recently published study.

Researchers investigated whether the addition of a drug N-acetylcysteine to steroids may possibly improve survival in alcoholic hepatitis patients.

From Medindia.net:

Researchers investigated whether the addition of a drug N-acetylcysteine to steroids could possibly improve survival in these patients. N-acetylcysteine has antioxidant properties and is currently used to protect the liver during acetaminophen (paracetamol) overdosage. It is also used to reduce thickness of mucus secreted in certain lung conditions.

The study was conducted on 174 patients in France. The patients were divided into two groups: One group was given the steroid prednisolone and the second group received prednisolone plus N-acetylcysteine. Prednisolone was administered for 28 days for all patients; patients in the second group also received N-acetylcysteine for the first five days. The patients underwent initial examination, laboratory and other tests. They were followed up for a period of 6 months or till death, whichever was earlier.

The researchers said that it is possible that a larger study with perhaps a longer duration of injectable N-acetylcysteine followed by oral administration could produce contrary results.

According to U.S. Attorney Stephanie Finley, a 26-year-old Lake Charles man got two years in prison as leader of a conspiracy to sell steroids across Louisiana and Texas.

Jordan Berza was ordered by a federal judge to pay a $12,000 fine and pay the government $15,000 rather than lose property bought with drug money, as per Finley.

From Therepublic.com:

Ten defendants were sentenced earlier, including Christopher Gass, who owned a store called Planet Nutrition with Berza. Finley has said some of the steroids were sold there.

Finley says the ring bought powdered steroids from Germany and China.

One defendant, 23-year-old Ronald Lee Bert Fontenot of Eunice, is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 1.

iTen defendants were sentenced earlier, including Christopher Gass, who owned a store called Planet Nutrition with Berza. Finley has said some of the steroids were sold there.

Finley says the ring bought powdered steroids from Germany and China.

One defendant, 23-year-old Ronald Lee Bert Fontenot of Eunice, is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 1.

Investigators confiscated about $93,000, mostly from Berza’s and Gass’ bank accounts, and $13,000 in cash from Berza’s home, as per Finley.

A paradigm shift in coming years may be experienced with the availability of sustained-release drug delivery systems for the treatment of retinal disease.

Retina specialists may choose to adhere to the growing trend of individualizing patient care through combination therapy as treatment options continue to accumulate.

From Osnsupersite.com:

Expert viewpoints always vary regarding the future of a given specialty, and the presence of new anti-VEGF agents and steroids in the ophthalmic armamentarium has supplied clinicians with an array of predictions.

“I think everybody is sorting out exactly which patient is better suited to which drug and where combinations may be effective,” Julia A. Haller, MD, OSN Retina/Vitreous Board Member, said. “Targeting therapies to the exact profile of the disease process in the individual patient is one of the most exciting areas in our field’s development.”

“Combination therapy is useful, because there are components [in retinal diseases] of both inflammation, which the steroids hit, and also components of high VEGF levels, which the anti-VEGF therapies hit,” Seenu M. Hariprasad, MD, OSN Retina/Vitreous Board Member, said.