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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: The six-pack look achieved through shortcuts may appear impressive, but the hidden toll of steroid abuse can be devastating. Rising cases of heart attacks, liver injuries and severe ...

The use of supraphysiologic doses of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) has extended beyond competitive bodybuilding into the general gym-going population, often without an adequate understanding of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger is warning of the dangers of abusing steroids while bodybuilding. The "Terminator" star told Men’s Health for its July/August cover story that "people are dying" from abusing ...

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: Should clinicians ask about other drug use, too? Dr. Morse: Yes. Many patients who are addicted to steroids have a co-occurring substance-use disorder. Steroids are called “gateway” drugs because ...