Young gym-goers are facing severe health crises, including heart attacks and liver damage, due to the rampant misuse of steroids and dubious supplements. Parliament has highlighted the open sale of ...

Supraphysiologic anabolic steroid use is increasing among recreational athletes, causing cardiac, psychiatric, renal, and reproductive complications.

Renewed concerns about the role of performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports have prompted national and state policymakers to focus on the problem of steroid abuse by teenagers. This abuse ...

Illicit steroids have moved beyond the headlines of the sports page. Olympic medalist Marion Jones drew jail time for lying about her familiarity with the performance-enhancing drugs, and televised ...

Research has already shown that taking anabolic steroids is associated with high blood pressure and an increased risk of developing heart conditions such as left ventricular hypertrophy. Now research, ...

Thursday's hearings on baseball and steroids featured everything except Kathy Bates shaking her finger at Sammy Sosa and declaring, "Steroids are the devil!" The whole thing was a joke. Although the ...

After using performance-enhancing drugs himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger is warning bodybuilders against steroid abuse. In his July/August cover story for Men’s Health, the actor and former California ...

The issue of steroid abuse has recently received national and international attention in the context of professional sports, as well as the upcoming Olympic Games. The importance of stopping steroid ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Gay and bisexual boys are almost six times as likely as their heterosexual peers to misuse steroids, according to a new study. "What was most surprising to us was the ...

Synthetic testosterone, also known as anabolic‑androgenic steroids (AAS), is a controlled drug prescribed for delayed puberty in boys, testosterone (T) deficiency in adults, breast cancer, gender ...

Men who use anabolic steroids to build muscle for that “perfect bod” may be harming their testicular function for years after they stop taking the drugs, according to a new study of nonathletic ...

Q: Can steroid users become addicted? Dr. Morse: They meet all the criteria for addiction: spending substantial time getting the drugs and recovering from them, needing to take higher doses to get the ...