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These results should reassure parents who have been told their son or daughter needs inhaled steroids. "The word steroid is scary and confusing to people," says Dr. Gail Shapiro, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and a co-author of one of the papers. The first problem is that corticosteroids (the scientific name of the asthma drugs) sounds an awful lot like the anabolic steroids used by some body builders. They aren't. Not only are corticosteroids safer but the inhaler makes them especially effective as well. Breathing in the drug...
...those ubiquitous "Got Milk?" ads that tell us so bluntly that if we don't drink milk, then we can't have iron pecs like Mark Maguire or shoulders like Serena Williams (read the fine print at the bottom: "Milk is part of a complete, healthy breakfast. Including steroid supplements.") Let's see what spawned all the Moloko Madness...
DIETER BAUMANN To participate in the Games, the German distance runner tried to appeal a ban he received in 1999 when he tested positive for NANDROLONE. He claimed he was the victim of steroid-spiked toothpaste. His appeal was rejected...
...shot put champion C. J. Hunter may, of course, be innocent. He claims he took the anabolic steroid nandrolone with his iron supplement - that is, accidentally. Hunter's wife, the miraculous Olympian Marion Jones, may be even more innocent still. But somehow having the captain of the old O. J. Simpson dream team standing by did not ease the mind...
...latest string of drug-related incidents at the Games in Sydney, authorities revealed that American shot putter C.J. Hunter, the husband of star sprinter Marion Jones, tested positive four times this summer for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid. Even more disturbing, it seems as though U.S. and international track and field officials never told this to the International Olympic Committee, the Games' governing body...