Renewed concerns about the role of performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports have prompted national and state policymakers to focus on the problem of steroid abuse by teenagers. This abuse ...

Research has already shown that taking anabolic steroids is associated with high blood pressure and an increased risk of developing heart conditions such as left ventricular hypertrophy. Now research, ...

Q: Can steroid users become addicted? Dr. Morse: They meet all the criteria for addiction: spending substantial time getting the drugs and recovering from them, needing to take higher doses to get the ...

Thursday's hearings on baseball and steroids featured everything except Kathy Bates shaking her finger at Sammy Sosa and declaring, "Steroids are the devil!" The whole thing was a joke. Although the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Gay and bisexual boys are almost six times as likely as their heterosexual peers to misuse steroids, according to a new study. "What was most surprising to us was the ...

Pressure for young people comes in many forms, but one of the most obvious, especially in a small town like South Lake Tahoe, is the pressure to succeed on the playing field in youth sports. Here, a ...

The Texas Rangers, in partnership with a steroid education foundation, yesterday launched a program aimed at discouraging Texas students from using performance-enhancing drugs, according to the ...

After using performance-enhancing drugs himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger is warning bodybuilders against steroid abuse. In his July/August cover story for Men’s Health, the actor and former California ...

Synthetic testosterone, also known as anabolic‑androgenic steroids (AAS), is a controlled drug prescribed for delayed puberty in boys, testosterone (T) deficiency in adults, breast cancer, gender ...

Some of those athletes may be found in Montgomery County and its high schools. An average of five seizures of illegal anabolic steroids — synthetic versions of the male hormone testosterone that ...

New Delhi: Walk into almost any gym in a big Indian city and the scene feels familiar — rows of young men working toward sculpted shoulders, sharp abs, and that promised “12-week transformation” seen ...

Q: Should clinicians ask about other drug use, too? Dr. Morse: Yes. Many patients who are addicted to steroids have a co-occurring substance-use disorder. Steroids are called “gateway” drugs because ...