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Idealized standards for muscular, fat-free male bodies may be fuelling the use of SARMs, or selective androgen receptor modulators, unapproved muscle-building drugs that are easily available online.
During the last six months, news reports have mentioned dozens of drugs that may be effective against the new coronavirus. Here we lay out the evidence and reveal which ones are proven to work. Or not.
Scientists have discovered that a widely used, cheap steroid can fight off COVID-19 in the most severe cases. Here’s how it works.
Ligandrol is used to help repair and build mass and is banned for use by professional athletes because it can give a competitive advantage.
Men are feeling more and more pressure to get rid of their love handles and beer bellies – and heavy promotion of unrealistic appearance standards are to blame.
When you think of steroid users, it’s likely you picture a male in the gym with huge muscles. But all sorts of people use steroids for all sorts of reasons.
Clinical trials can assess impact of a medication on a disease. The ideal design is ‘blind’ – when the researchers and participants do not know who is assigned to the different treatments.
Nearly 50% of cross-country skiers suffer from exercise-induced asthma.
An expensive drug is hailed as the biggest breakthrough since statins. But there is a cheaper alternative.
There are concerns that performance-enhancing drug use is quickly becoming a public health crisis.
There is an urgent need to reconsider steroid use as a public health issue as opposed to a criminal justice concern.
A handful of countries have introduced anti-doping measures in high-street gyms. Let’s nip it in the bud.
A growing number of young men are using steroids, but there are few public services to help this vulnerable group.
Anti-doping authorities divide steroids into good and bad ones. Yet the more you look at them close up, the more similar they actually are.
Easy media stereotypes rather than clear evidence attributes performance enhancing drug supplies to organised criminals.
Most women get them. Some men get them. Few people welcome them. Stretch marks, or stria distensae, are scars that appear when the skin is stretched beyond its elastic limit.
Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees’ erstwhile third baseman, has had an interesting career in more ways than one. His use of steroids has resulted in a sullied reputation and a one-year suspension without…
Steroids are easy to scapegoat. Users are viewed as aggressive, violent and mentally unstable, able to snap at any moment and cause great harm to the people around them. Ostensibly, it is this perception…
The injection of steroids into the brains of parenting male fish has been found to eliminate parental care, while leaving…
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