Tougher drug tests for Centennial Olympic Games
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Researchers are trying to develop better ways of detecting drug use in Olympic athletes. Some athletes use drugs to boost their performance and the US Olympic Committee has a $1.5 million budget to test athletes and enforce the ban on drug use. Many athletes learn to use drugs in high school and the drugs most often used are anabolic steroids. One survey of high school students found that older students were more likely to think that steroid use was acceptable, but they were also more likely to use alternatives such as good nutrition and strength training. Some Olympic athletes are using synthetic testosterone, which is hard to distinguish from the natural hormone. One test involves giving athletes the antifungal drug ketoconazole, which suppresses natural testosterone production. Testosterone levels would drop in athletes who were not abusing steroids, but not in those who were.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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FDA issues draft 'concept paper' on drug company funding of CME
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a draft of guidelines regulating pharmaceutical industry support of continuing medical education (CME). According to these guidelines, pharmaceutical companies could not use CME symposia to market their products. Pharmaceutical companies and CME providers would have to sign an agreement that the companies would not influence course content. Companies could not select the program authors or presenters, or have promotional activities such as sales representatives, product exhibits or advertising material near the CME session. CME providers would have to present both favorable and unfavorable information about a drug or treatment. Many educators and pharmaceutical companies believe that these guidelines are too restrictive and that the FDA should not regulate CME.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1991
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Draft of report on secondhand smoke released
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The California Environmental Protection Agency has released a report on the health effects of secondhand tobacco smoke. The agency estimates that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) causes low birth weight in up to 18,600 babies nationwide and 8,000 to 26,000 new cases of childhood asthma. It is also allegedly responsible for 150,000 to 300,000 cases of bronchitis or pneumonia in young children, 3,000 cases of lung cancer in adults and 35,000 to 62,000 cases of heart disease in adults. It has also been linked to sudden infant death, miscarriage and middle ear infections in children.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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