Is testosterone a steroid? Here’s the truth

Testosterone is a naturally occurring steroid hormone. Despite its status as a steroid, prescription testosterone replacement ...
Yahoo

Bodybuilders are sounding the alarm that ‘extreme’ steroid use is leading to deaths in the sport, and it’s only getting worse

Bodybuilders are warning about the health hazards of extreme physiques, often involving steroid use. Too much mass, combined with performing-enhancing drugs, can devastate the heart, liver, and ...
Yahoo

Fitness influencers lure followers by disclosing the steroid use behind their muscle gains. They're not as honest about serious long-term health risks.

Fitness influencers lure followers by disclosing the steroid use behind their muscle gains. They're not as honest about serious long-term health risks. Many bodybuilding influencers lie about their ...

Australia sees rise in steroid use but there are 'no clinical guidelines' yet; expert warns health sector as concern over drugs 'explodes' in country

Steroid use is surging across Australia, a growing concern despite a ban on non-medical use. Data shows a nearly 40 percent ...

Steroid use is 'exploding' — but there are no clinical guidelines on how to quit

A rising number of Australians are using steroids. But one expert says a lack of knowledge and widespread stigma make it ...
PBS

Baseball Officials Testify on Steroid Use in Sport

At a House hearing Tuesday to discuss the recent report by former Sen. George Mitchell on the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig ...
News Medical

Steroid use linked to increased concussion risk in high school athletes

Higher body mass index and increased aggression caused by steroid use could increase the potential for sustaining a concussion, researchers say. More than half of US high school athletes who use ...
ZME Science on MSN

An Anthropologist Spent 5 Years Infiltrating the Secret World of ‘Broscience’ and Steroid Use. Here’s What She Learned

An Australian researcher went undercover to learn more about how Broscience experiments with dangerous drugs — and found a ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Complications of Steroid Use in GVHD Associated With Higher Health Care Usage, Costs

For patients with acute and chronic graft-vs-host disease (GVHD), systemic treatment with steroids is the standard of care, and although steroid-related complications are common, the associated health ...
Healio

Preoperative steroid use linked to higher risk for complications following craniotomy

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Chronic steroid therapy before craniotomy for tumor resection was associated with postoperative complications ...
The Michigan Daily

Ethicist: Why steroid use is bad for sports

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A discussion about steroids in sports last night began with pessimism. Kelly Fraser Ethicist ...
Los Angeles Times

Players balk on steroid use

WASHINGTON — Putting the integrity of the national pastime under a harsh spotlight, a House committee questioned a panel of superstars Thursday about steroids in baseball, eliciting sharp denials from ...