Guy Marc Ducasse, 46, a bodybuilder from Oklahoma City who was charged and pleaded guilty to illegal distribution of anabolic steroids was sentenced to one-month imprisonment and was ordered to complete 400 hours of community service.

US chief district judge Claire Eagan also placed Ducasse in three-year court supervision. She ordered him to an unusual punishment by ordering him to speak to young people about the dangers of steroids.

Ducasse’s case was due to one occasion in 2006 when he gave Proviron to a dentist whom he said was his friend. He claimed that he did not sell the drug to the dentist.

However, according to Eagan, Ducasse distributed 4,324 units of steroids on separate accounts to at least seven people.

Ducasse will start serving his prison sentence on December 2. After his imprisonment, he is expected to serve 400 hours of community service. He has to complete it within a one-month period. He is likely to give his speeches in Oklahoma City high schools. During the summer, when school is not in session, he has to give them in athletic camps.

His talk should be about his experience with steroid use, distribution, as well as the hazards it brings to our health.

From Tulsa World:

An Oklahoma City bodybuilder who pleaded guilty in August to distributing an anabolic steroid was sentenced Friday in federal court in Tulsa to one month in jail and ordered to perform 400 hours of community service.

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Bryan Wilson, 40, a former resident of Columbia but now lives in Kansas City was sentenced to two years and eleven months in federal prison. April Jones, 35, his former wife, faces only six months of imprisonment. Both sentences are not entitled to a parole.

The third defendant is Jason Varner, 35, of Jefferson City. He attempted to buy steroids worth $10,000. His case was separate although related to the two previous cases. He received three years probation with three months house arrest.

The three were a part of the largest illegal steroids investigation on history in 2007. The operation was called “Operation Juice Box”. This was a part of “Operation Raw Deal”. It targets anabolic steroids trafficking as well as the import of raw materials mainly from China.

Wilson and his ex-wife used to deal steroids illegally from 2003 to September 15, 2007. Wilson was arrested on September 15 where he was found to possess one kilogram of raw steroid powder at the Nifong UPS store.

Wilson faces charges of conspiracy to sell anabolic steroids and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Jones, on the other hand, faces one count of money laundering.

From Missourian:

COLUMBIA — Three defendants arrested as part of the largest illegal steroid investigation in history were sentenced in a federal court on Monday, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Missouri.

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Wide Bay Rebels club leader Adam Warwick McCrea was recently detained after half a liter steroids, 24 grams of cannabis and more than 100 ecstasy tablets were found in his Takura property on March 4.

Aside from these prohibited substances, more than $10,000 cash, drug utensils and some explosives were also found in his home.

The 44-year-old Wide Bay president was charged with three counts of dangerous drug possession. He appeared before the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on November 17.

There were 14 witness statements and several drug analysis certificates tendered by prosecutor Sergeant Michael Quirk.

On April 22, six other drug and weapons offenses were suspended for mention at the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court.

McCrea is currently on bail until his Supreme Court trial. So far, he has not entered into any pleas to any of the charges.

McCrea previously faced charges for common assault, rape, supplying drugs and drug spiking. However, charges were dropped by prosecution due to insufficient evidence.

He was recently reported to have committed a grievous bodily harm to his former girlfriend, Georgia Anderson. Ms. Anderson suffered a punctured lung, ribs, and pneumothorax.

From Fraser Coast Chronicle:

MORE THAN 100 ecstasy tablets, half a litre of steroids and 24 grams of cannabis were allegedly found during a search of Adam Warwick McCrea’s Takura property on March 4.

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Five time winner of the Eclipse Award for top horse trainer Bobby Frankel recently died in his Pacific Palisades home due complications brought about by lymphoma. He died last November 16 at the age of 68.

He also won eleven times for the Eclipse Award with ten horses.

Frankel was born in Brooklyn and trained thousands of horses where he won around 3,654 races.

He was the second highest earner trainer next to Hall of Famer Wayne Lucas.

According to fellow Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, Frankel was a great, fierce competitor but has always been a good person. He said he was a big loss in sport and that he is definitely going to be missed.

Frankel was one of the many to have claimed that he never used steroids in his horses. He was a critic of the synthetic substances, especially during the height of the steroids scandal in the 2008 Triple Crown Series with the horse Big Brown.

He may seem to be tough outside but he is an animal lover who always put the welfare of the horses first. He would never hurt the horses by using steroids on them.

From NY Daily News:

During the Big Brown steroid scandal in the 2008 Triple Crown Series, Frankel was one of the few trainers to say he never used steroids on his horses.

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Though steroids are one of the most widely used treatment options for treating sudden hearing loss, there is little evidence for suggesting the use as per a systematic review and meta-analysis both published in an issue of Archives of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery.

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is a severe hearing impairment condition that involves a loss of hearing at least 30 decibels of hearing over a minimum of three test frequencies in three days.

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For the systematic review, 21 trials were identified and evaluated, all of which used measures from hearing tests to define treatment outcomes. “Only two studies used identical criteria to define sudden sensorineural hearing loss,” the authors write. “The method of randomization was described in two studies. Validity scores ranged from two to eight (of nine). Positive results were reported favoring systemic steroids, intratympanic [inside the inner ear] steroids, batroxobin, magnesium, vitamin E and hyperbaric oxygen, although there were serious limitations in each study with a positive finding.”

This includes the article cited as the landmark study for the use of steroids, which was not described as a randomized trial and therefore may have produced exaggerated treatment effects, the authors note. The authors suggest that this study also used inconsistent doses of steroids and did not measure outcomes at the same time for all participants. “The study therefore does not inform the otolaryngologist of what dose of steroids to use, nor at what time after treatment to expect improvement,” the authors write.

Anne Elizabeth Conlin, B.A. & Sc., M.D., of the University of Ottawa, Ontario, and Lorne S. Parnes, M.D., F.R.C.S.C., of the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, made efforts for searching all randomized clinical trials concerned with evaluating sudden hearing loss treatments published between 1966 and 2006.

It was remarked that systemic steroids cannot be believed to be the gold treatment standard when it comes to sudden sensorineural hearing loss due to the severe complications of the landmark study supporting their use.

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Since the advent of steroids in baseball and the rampant steroids use even among high school and student athletes, steroid testing is now mandatory in nearly every level of competition.

University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) athletes are also subject to testing by the university and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

According to Roy Rudewick, UTA’s athletic trainer, their policy involves up to three offenses only. Steroids may be a problem in baseball but recreational drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and the likes are more rampant.

A 2008 study conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse showed that about 1.5 percent of high school seniors have used steroids but more than 30 percent of the respondents have used marijuana.

Out of the 16,000 respondents, 192 admitted to steroids use and 4,800 admitted to marijuana use.

Rudewick said athletes are selected once a month for random steroid testing. That means an individual will get to be tested six times in one school year. Although their drug testing focuses more on recreational drugs, performance-enhancing drugs are also included.

NCAA on the other hand, tests for more drugs and substances that are not included in UTA’s drug testing.

From The Shorthorn:

Steroid use in baseball has shaken the foundation of professional sports. Testing is now mandatory in nearly every level of competition, and UTA is no exception.

UTA athletes are subject to testing from the university and the NCAA.

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Make-a-Wish foundation is an organization that helps make wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions come true.

Lalime Wilson, 12, is from New Kensington. He suffers from a severe steroid-dependent asthma. Recently, he and two of his four siblings got trips to Disney World from the foundation. Meanwhile, his sister Idalis suffers from urticaria, a condition that causes respiratory problems, swelling and hive-like welts.

As a way of thanking the foundation, Lalime and his 14-year-old sister entered a card-making contest this summer. The event was sponsored by the Make-a-Wish foundation.

According to the foundation’s spokesperson Dana Antkowiak, there were 30 entries where four winners were chosen. Lalime’s drawing of a snowman was one of them. Children from Scottdale, Irwin and York sent their designs to the Make-a-Wish foundation in Greater Pennsylvania and Southern West Virginia. The contest was exclusive to kids who are beneficiaries of the foundation.

Lalime likes drawing both by hand and by computer. Aside from this, one of his interests is hockey and football. However, according to his father Charles Durand, his asthma has triggered bouts of pneumonia. Severe scar tissues have built up in his lungs. His condition prevented Lalime from actually participating in sports.

From Pittsburgh Live:

Lalime Wilson hopes his holiday card design for the Make-A-Wish Foundation will help the organization that has greatly helped his family.

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Anabolic steroids in urine can now be traced in a matter of seconds. Thanks to the technology that combines two state-of-the-art techniques, desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) and tandem mass spectrometry.

Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks and colleagues, developed the new method, which can identify seven different anabolic steroids in a few seconds using a urine sample.

One of the growing problems in sports is the use of banned substances, particularly anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs by professional athletes to hasten muscle growth and gain advantage in their athletic performance. Some of the sports affected by these banned substances are track and field, baseball, football and cycling.

Some of the famous personalities involved in steroids controversies were track and field players Marion Jones and Ben Johnson; baseball stars Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, and many more. American cyclist Floyd Landis was stripped of his championship in the 2006 Tour de France. Professional and college football players alike use steroids to help them in their performance.

The method was described in Analytical Chemistry. It involves no time-consuming sample preparation and takes only a few seconds.

Current methods involves time-consuming processes and complicated preparation steps. In addition, results take longer to determine.

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Amid growing concerns about sports “doping,” researchers in Indiana and China report development of a faster and more efficient method for detecting the presence of illegal anabolic steroids in urine.

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RPL554, a new drug for treating asthma, that faced trial at the Centre for Human Drug Research (CHDR) in the Netherlands on more than 60 people in 2008, is now expected to head for human trials during 2009.

The drug, which is hailed by some as nothing short of a miracle drug, may prove beneficial to 1.5 million people in the United States alone suffering from asthma and hay fever. This drug is expected to be available in the market in the coming three to four years pending to the success of initial trials for efficacy and safety.

From News-Medical.Net:

Current treatments for asthma and hay fever sufferers are beta-agonists, which open up the airways, and inhaled steroids, which dampen down the inflammation that causes irritation - they are either taken together or singly.

But they have serious side effects, including possible harm to the cardiovascular system and the ’shakes’ reported by many patients from excess use.

Experts say little progress has been made recently with alternative, effective and practical treatment options for a wide range of people with asthma and hay fever and by combining anti-inflammatory properties and the ability to overcome airway narrowing in a single long-lasting dose via the nose, RPL554 could offer real hope of a significant breakthrough.

Some researchers are of the view that this once-a-day asthma treatment option would act as a potential first-line therapy for curing patients suffering from asthma and hay fever. This will also mean that patients with asthma would now require only a single needle puff from their “lifesaving” inhalers to stop the symptoms.

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According to a new study co-authored by Dr. Joan Bregstein of the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center, steroids are not effective when it comes to treating infants with bronchiolitis, which is a common and potentially serious viral lower respiratory infection.

This multicenter study, which was conducted by the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), found out that steroid therapy was unable to prevent hospitalization or improve respiratory symptoms for bronchiolitis.

It is worth nothing that some of the bronchiolitis symptoms include coughing, fever, wheezing, and runny nose.

From News-Medical.Net:

“Our study shows that treating bronchiolitis with steroids doesn’t work. We hope this study will resolve some of the uncertainty for physicians and families, as we move forward in developing better means of preventing and treating the infection,” says Dr. Bregstein, site principal investigator and emergency medicine pediatrician at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Current recommendations suggest that simple supportive care is the best available treatment for bronchiolitis. Researchers note that steroid-based medications still play an important role in other respiratory illnesses of childhood such as asthma and croup. They point out these medications are not the androgenic steroids sometimes abused by athletes, and that the side effects seen with long-term steroid use are not a risk in the short-course treatments used for croup and asthma attacks.

This study on bronchiolitis was led for PECARN by the University of Utah’s Department of Pediatrics and Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

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