San Diego Chargers strong safety Steve Gregory has been handed over a suspension of four games after he was found violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

Gregory said in a statement that he was completely shocked to know about the positive test from May during the off-season.

From Reuters.com:

“I was completely shocked to find out about this positive test from May during the off-season,” Gregory in a statement. “I have never knowingly used any form of performance enhancing substance; however, as an athlete I know that I am responsible for everything that goes into my body.”

Gregory, in his fifth year with the Charges, appealed the test result but was told on Monday his appeal had been rejected and his suspension will begin immediately.

In four games this season, Gregory had a team-high 30 tackles to go with one interception.

Gregory will miss a game at Oakland but will be eligible to rejoin the team for a contest against the Houston Texans.

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According to the manager of Comic Jerry Lewis, Lewis has spent many weeks in hospital weaning himself off a steroid that made him gain 60 pounds.

A star of films since the 1950s, Lewis, had been prescribed the steroid to deal with a chronic lung ailment.

From News.bbc.co.uk:

Lewis was “feeling and looking terrific”, she said, and planned to remain in rehab for four more months.

Ms Cazau said the comedian had cut down his prescription of the steroid prednisone “by half” and had embarked on “very rigorous exercise routine and a carefully planned diet” to take his weight down from 242 pounds (110kg).

The comic wanted to be entirely free of the drug – which he had used to treat pulmonary fibrosis, an inflammatory lung disease – and be back to his normal weight by March.

Lewis began taking the steroid in 2001 but decided to cut back on it after his lung condition improved.

The comic star, who formed a popular double act with comedian and singer Dean martin, is best-known for films such as The Bellboy, The Errand Boy and The Nutty Professor.

Manager Candi Cazau said Lewis had already lost 27 pounds since booking into a Las Vegas hospital in October.

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Yaroslav Popovych, the former cycling teammate of Lance Armstrong, recently testified before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Wednesday for 90 minutes, as per his attorney Kenneth Miller.

Miller said he doesn’t think Popovych knows anything about what the grand jury is investigating.

From Articles.latimes.com:

Popovych, a 30-year-old from Ukraine who rode with Armstrong on teams sponsored by Discovery Channel, Astana and RadioShack, was served with a subpoena after participating in a charity ride in Austin, Texas, for Armstrong’s cancer foundation, Livestrong.

“How he was served struck me as a little peculiar,” Miller said. “It was effected on a guy at a charity ride who was going to leave Texas for a vacation with his girlfriend, a guy from Ukraine who doesn’t speak great English and didn’t really understand what was going on.”

Miller said Popovych told him somebody walked up to him as he was leaving an autograph-signing event at a bicycle shop in Austin and followed him to his hotel. Miller also said that Popovych was told Wednesday that he is not a target of the investigation

Popovych had planned to stay in the U.S. only for four days but “they forced him to be here,” Miller said, referring to those who served the subpoena.

Among others who have testified are exercise physiologist Allen Lim, who has worked with several cycling teams including RadioShack last season, and Stephanie McIlvain, who is an Oakley sunglasses representative who worked closely with Armstrong.

Armstrong has been accused of indulging into blood doping in the past by his former teammate, Floyd Landis.

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The triple world record holder, Usain Bolt, who won the 100m in 9.91sec in the London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace, recently said he was shocked to learn that five Jamaican athletes failed to clear a test for banned substances.

Bolt said that the failed drug tests are backward steps for the sport.

From Guardian.co.uk:

A spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) said they could not get involved yet, although Jamaica’s prime minister Bruce Golding has called an emergency meeting to address the situation. “Announcements relating to doping controls fall under the responsibilities of the organization in charge of results management of the relevant case.”

The most recent Jamaican athlete to have tested positive was Julien Dunkley, who was dropped from the Olympic team after Boldenone was found in a sample taken at the national trials in 2008. He is serving a two-year ban. Others to have tested positive for performance enhancing drugs include the sprinters Merlene Ottey and Patrick Jarrett. Jarrett was suspended for two years, but Ottey escaped a ban as her ‘B’ sample was returned negative. Earlier this month Bolt lamented that Jamaica did not have the finances to implement a world-class drugs testing regime. “I get tested a lot but we just do not get the facilities in Jamaica to do so much testing like in big countries such as the US,” he said.

It is speculated that two of the five accused athletes belong to the Racers Track Club, the same club as Bolt, and are coached by Glen Mills.

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There is a deep link between aggression and use of steroids, according to Northeastern University psychology professor Richard Melloni. Melloni found out evidence suggesting that using anabolic steroids can have effects on aggression and behavior levels in the long run well after the abuse of performance enhancing drugs has stopped.

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the world’s foremost medical research centers.

From Sciencedaily.com:

The researchers initially hypothesized that steroid use during adolescence might permanently alter the brain’s chemistry and a person’s tendency toward aggression long after use has stopped. Their most recent findings, published this week in Hormones and Behavior, enabled them to confirm this hypothesis and conclude that there is indeed a lengthy price – namely long-term aggression – to pay for drug abuse even after the ingestion of steroids ceases.

“We know testosterone or steroids affect the development of serotonin nerve cells, which, in turn, decreases serotonin availability in the brain,” Melloni says. “The serotonin neural system is still developing during adolescence and the use of anabolic steroids during this critical period appears to have immediate and longer-term neural and behavioral consequences. What we know at this point is that aggressiveness doesn’t simply cease after the ingestion of steroids does.”

Athletes indulging in abuse of steroids could be inclined towards aggressive behavior much after the use of steroids has waned.

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According to a finding published as part of a study in an issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), treatment with steroids can prove to be a beneficial option for delaying or preventing loss of kidney function in patients with IgA nephropathy, a type of kidney disease.

The kidney complication is an autoimmune disease affecting the kidneys and is considered as a major cause of end-stage failure of the kidneys in younger people.

From Sciencedaily.com:

“Our study shows that corticosteroids are very useful in patients with IgA nephropathy, and that the addition of an immunosuppressant drug, such as azathioprine, doesn’t increase their benefit,” comments Claudio Pozzi, MD (Ospedale E. Bassini, Milan).

Patients with IgA nephropathy develop deposits of the protein IgA in the kidneys. The abnormal IgA deposits damage the glomeruli (the filtering units of the kidney), leading to blood and protein in the urine. Previous studies have shown that steroids can reduce urine protein levels and help protect kidney function. However, some patients develop progressive kidney disease, despite steroid treatment.

The list of study co-authors included Simeone Andrulli, Lucia Del Vecchio, Francesco Locatelli (Ospedale di Lecco), Antonello Pani (Ospedale di Cagliari), Patrizia Scaini (Ospedale di Brescia), Giambattista Fogazzi (Ospedale Maggiore di Milano), Bruno Vogt (Inselspital di Berna), Vincenzo De Cristofaro (Ospedale di Sondrio), Landino Allegri (Ospedale di Parma), Lino Cirami (Ospedale di Firenze), and Aldo Deni Procaccini (Ospedale di Foggia).

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Exercise physiologist Allen Lim, a staff member for Lance Armstrong‘s Team RadioShack, testified recently before a grand jury being presented evidence of alleged doping in professional cycling.

Lim said in a statement that the appearance helped him to “set the record straight” about his attempts of preventing doping in cycling.

From Sports.espn.go.com:

Lim’s testimony came the same day that it was revealed that three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador tested positive for a banned substance during this year’s race and has been suspended by cycling’s governing body.

Lim was seen reporting to the grand jury room around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. He was greeted by an assistant U.S. attorney overseeing the probe, which has issued subpoenas and solicited testimony about whether Armstrong and other cyclists took banned substances.

Landis accused Lim in an e-mail earlier this year of helping him cheat during his career. Lim has denied the allegations put forward by Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping.

“Floyd’s admission speaks for itself,” he told Ford last May. “The only thing I know with certainty is that I could not work with an athlete whom I knew to be using performance-enhancing drugs. I’ve worked very hard to make this a better sport.”

In his statement Wednesday, Lim said he is committed to preventing doping in professional cycling.

“I look forward to continuing the fight against doping and to imbue athletes with my passionate belief that performance enhancing drugs are unnecessary and a tremendous health risk,” the statement said.

Longtime Armstrong friend Stephanie McIlvain was also summoned by prosecutors and her attorney told the jury panel that she had never heard Armstrong admit that he used banned substances.

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The growing trend among young men to make use of steroids for enhancing their self-image is the subject of a conference being held in Liverpool.

More and more men are using steroids these days than ever in an attempt to attain the body shapes seen in films and magazines.

From News.bbc.co.uk:

Head of Substance Use at the Centre Jim McVeigh said the increasing use of such drugs was a major public health issue.

He claims that many of those who take these drugs, in particular anabolic steroids, are suffering with both physically and psychologically effects.

Dr Rob Dawson, the medical officer at the Drugs in Sport Clinic, said he believed too much time had been spent concentrating on the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes when this was just the tip of the iceberg.

“The main body [of users] consists of anabolic steroids users who are not engaged in competitive sport.

“We need to focus on this section of the population.”

The event has been organized by The Centre for Public Health at John Moores University in Liverpool.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California and former bodybuilding great, recently had his way during the torch exchange of the 2010 Games.

Schwarzenegger was invited by Sebastian Coe to the London Games. Coe demonstrated diplomatic behavior when asked if the former Mr Olympia will be the torch bearer.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Serving politicians are seldom granted the honour; nor are former bodybuilders with a history of steroid use. Schwarzenegger may have won the Mr Olympia title seven times but the Olympics run to a rather different set of rules.

Nonetheless celebrity counts for something and, at an occasion which has fashioned itself as the “green” Games, so does a strong record on green issues during his term as governor of California – a record cited by John Furlong, the head of Vanoc, the Games’ organisers, in defending the invitation. “He has taken an extraordinary position on the environment and has developed a great relationship with the province of British Columbia,” he said.

Certainly it proved to be a hugely popular decision with the Vancouver public, whose enthusiasm for the Olympics, and desire for the 2010 Games to be seen around the world as a success, seems to be building with every passing hour.

Shelley Rudman, Britain’s only medalist from the Turin Winter Games four years ago, was the only undisputed choice and was selected at a team reception in downtown Vancouver.

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Researchers from the Emory University have suggested that offering progesterone to patients treated for traumatic brain injuries, shortly after the injury, can considerably reduce the risk of death and degree of disability.

The research was published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

From News-medical.net:

As the results were so impressive, the research team felt it was time to take the treatment to the bedside for testing in patients who had suffered a serious brain injury.

It is estimated that 1.5 to 2 million people in the U.S. sustain a TBI each year, leading to 50,000 deaths and 80,000 new cases of long-term disability.

It is also a major cause of death and disability among children and military personnel.

Despite the enormity of the problem, scientists have failed to identify effective medications to improve outcomes following a TBI and no new medical therapies have been developed for traumatic brain injuries in over 30 years.

Although it is classed as a “sex steroid,” progesterone is also a neurosteroid that exerts protective effects on human tissue.

It is naturally present in small but measurable amounts in the brains of males and females.

It was disclosed by the study that progesterone treatment for brain injuries is safe and has been extensively studied on animals for more than 15 years.

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