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 ...

Recreational androgen abuse in men was associated with a significant but modest increase in indices of sleep-disordered breathing, with the most pronounced changes observed at approximately 3 months ...

New research presented at this year's European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) meeting in Munich, Germany (12-16 Sept) shows that anabolic steroid abuse is associated with impaired ...

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 ...

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 ...

"While preparing for his prom night, a high school senior drank a 'health formula,' which he had been taking for some time to increase muscle and reduce fat. Twenty minutes after drinking the formula, ...

“Steroids” is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to corticosteroids, anabolic steroids, and sex hormone steroids. The term “steroids” most often refers to a class of medications called ...

Anabolic-androgenic steroids are medications that can be prescribed for certain medical conditions. Also simply known as anabolic steroids, these are also sometimes misused for other purposes, ...

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 ...