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That's right, your daughter. Although the steroid fad seems to be fading among teenage boys, the latest studies suggest that it's just taking off among girls. A survey conducted at Pennsylvania State University estimates that the number of steroid-popping 14-to-18-year-old girls has roughly doubled over the past seven years and could be as high as 175,000 nationwide. A study of four Massachusetts middle schools found that girls as young as 10 are taking the performance-enhancing drugs in roughly the same numbers as boys...
...scholarships to reflect more closely the number of women athletes. The number of full scholarships grew from 0 (yes, zero) in 1972 to nearly 20,000 in 1997. According to Charles Yesalis, a professor of sports science and senior author of the Penn State report, many young women view steroid use as a straightforward investment in their future. "Most of the time, after you stop taking steroids, you won't go back to ground zero," he explains. "If you keep working out, you could hang on to 80% of your gains." Aspiring athletes can take the hormones...
PREEMIE PROBLEM Giving the steroid dexamethasone to premature babies helps free them early from a ventilator but increases their risk of infection and can slow their growth...
BREATHING UNEASY A common asthma treatment, the steroid inhalant beclomethasone, is great at reducing the frequency of attacks, but it may have a downside: a study finds that in kids with mild asthma, the drug may delay growth slightly...
...file Internet dispatches from Camp Four, at 26,000 ft. Did she deserve to be mocked for her pretensions or admired for her pluck? (Pittman did reach the top, "short-roped" or dragged there by a Sherpa, and got back down, after collapsing and being revived by an emergency steroid injection...