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Review recommends GreenEdge reinstate banned director
ReutersMELBOURNE (Reuters) - A review of Australia's GreenEdge has recommended the UCI WorldTour cycling team reinstate sacked sports director and confessed doper Matt White. White admitted to doping with the U.S. Postal team and voluntarily stood down from the...Tags: Lance Armstrong, Cycling, Sports, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, World Anti-Doping Agency
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Cycling-Review recommends GreenEdge reinstate banned director
ReutersMELBOURNE, May 17 (Reuters) - A review of Australia's GreenEdge has recommended the UCI WorldTour cycling team reinstate sacked sports director and confessed doper Matt White. White admitted to doping with the U.S. Postal team and voluntarily stood...Tags: Lance Armstrong, Cycling, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Sports, World Anti-Doping Agency
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AP Exclusive: Dick Pound's WADA report cites major failings in global drug-testing
AP Sports WriterLONDON (AP) — Former WADA president Dick Pound has written a report for the World Anti-Doping Agency assessing the current state of drug-testing. It doesn't paint a pretty picture. Despite increased testing and scientific advances to detect more...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Cycling, International Olympic Committee, World Anti-Doping Agency, Sports Organizations
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Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet
Amgen Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops medicines used in the treatment of cancer, kidney disease, arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. The Thousand Oaks company's top-selling products include arthritis medication Enbrel,...
Tags: Amgen Inc., Drugs and Medicines, Osteoporosis, Technology, Biotechnology Industry
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Puerto doctor gets jail term, evidence to be destroyed
ReutersMADRID (Reuters) - Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the central figure in the Operation Puerto probe into a doping ring in cycling, was given a one-year prison sentence for crimes against public health on Tuesday. Fuentes was also barred from practicing...Tags: Olympic Games, Social Sciences, Tyler Hamilton, Culture, Crime, Law and Justice
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The red herring of human gene patents
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis Just a few words and little thought separate yet another stronghold of the American economy from ruin....
Tags: Myriad Genetics Incorporated, National Institutes of Health, Medical Specialization, Biotechnology Industry, Biology
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INTERVIEW-Tennis-Passports should end doping system "disaster" - Berdych
ReutersBy Gregory Blachier MONTE CARLO, April 21 (Reuters) - Current anti-doping measures in tennis are a "disaster" and the introduction of biological passports can only improve matters, world number six Tomas Berdych said. "The system right now... I don't...Tags: One Hour Cycling, Cycling, World Anti-Doping Agency, Personal Data Collection, Track Cycling
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Astellas, GSK vie to make 'high altitude' anaemia pill
Reuters* Drugs mimic body's response to being at high altitude * Experimental tablets an alternative to injections of EPO * Astellas and partner FibroGen in lead with Phase III pill * GSK CEO says excited by potential of its Phase II product By Ben Hirschler...Tags: Amgen Inc., High Blood Pressure, University of Oxford, World Anti-Doping Agency, Vaccines
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“Cycling High”: Inside the Lance Armstrong scandal
Channel Guide MagazineCycling High: Doping to Win on National Geographic Channel Sunday, April 21, at 7pm ET goes inside the doping scandal that brought down cyclist Lance Armstrong, looking at the science, eyewitness testimonies, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Report and... -
After many winters of discontent, the best of times for Kostner
LONDON, ONT. -- A decade ago, Carolina Kostner was the ingénue of the World Figure Skating Championships, a 16-year-old Italian who bounded around the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. like a frolicsome fawn as Michelle Kwan won her last of five world...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Rentals, Ice Skating, Human Interest, Washington, DC
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Lance lied to Oprah, anti-doping agency tells ‘60 Minutes’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelIn an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong lied or misled, the head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency tells CBS' ”60 Minutes.” Armstrong wasn't leveling when he said he used small amounts of the blood booster EPO, Travis... -
Poll: Has your perception of Lance Armstrong changed?
Lance Armstrong finally admitted, to Oprah Winfrey, what many had alleged and believed: He took part in systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs during his unprecedented streak of seven victories in the Tour de France. In the interview, which was...Tags: Lance Armstrong, Cycling, OWN (tv network), Oprah Winfrey, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
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