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Anti-doping Rules Must Avoid Unsatisfactory Decisions: WADA

Criticising the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not incorporating effective anti-doping rules , the World-Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has said that the fight against doping will be severely hampered if this is not take care of. The fight against do...

Oxygen4Energy: International Sports News - World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Bans Oxygen Use

... by the FDA, it is understandable that its use is banned. However, considering the nature of recreational canned oxygen, it seems very surprising that wada would ban it: It is completely safe and not considered a drug by FDA guidelines. It has never been scientifically proven to...

Rodriguez and Baseball: 'No Accountability'; 'Disgraceful' News Conference, Says Ex-White House Drug Spokesman Robert Weiner

...use Drug Policy spokesman Robert Weiner, who worked on the creation of both wada and USADA, the World and U.S. Anti-Doping Agencies. Weiner, who was W...2001 and coordinated White House anti-drug media at the Sydney Olympics and wada media at the Salt Lake Games, added, "In any Olympic sport, Rodriguez and t...

Grifols Biomat USA Opens New Plasma Donor Center in Lincoln

...iomat USA. "Our strategy for opening new centers is focused on securing a stable supply of plasma in order to meet the needs of the expanding market," wada said. About Grifols Biomat USA: Grifols Biomat USA is part of a large a network of plasma collection centers owned and operated by Grifols, a glob...

Scientists race to stay ahead of the drug-taking and genetic manipulation that threatens sport

...ith two other leading experts Professor Arne Ljungqvist, Vice President of wada and Professor Emeritus at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Professor K...us other sporting bodies followed suit. This culminated in the formation of wada in 1999, where Professor Ljungqvist, as Chairman of its Health, Medical and...

New study examines the validity of epo testing

..., a team of researchers investigated the quality of the test results at two wada labs. They found that the detection power of the test at the two labs was p...s in Perspective The results demonstrate that the detection power of the wada test is poor and that agreement in analytical results from two WADA-accredi...

Sports Doping's Effect May Be in the Mind

... its use has also been linked to an increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, muscle, joint, and bone pain, high blood pressure, and osteoarthritis. wada has therefore classified HGH as a banned substance both in and out of sports competitions. The drug made headlines early this year when baseball g...

New steroid test uses oil exploration technique

...ver the coming year he hopes to refine the testing process, exploring optimum sample sizes and checking the sensitivity of the technique, working with wada and experts in steroid testing from Imperial College London. ...

Research Indicates Nearly 25 Percent of Supplements Are Contaminated With Steroids, Stimulants and Banned Substances

...e samples for banned substances than any other lab in the world. Only a handful of WADA-accredited laboratories had undertaken supplement testing, and wada has recently prohibited this practice with its latest release of The Internal Standard for Laboratories. Because of this, in September 2007, HFL stepp...

Marian Jones Should Return Olympic Medals, Says Ex-White House Drug Spokesman Bob Weiner

...s to admit guilt, including now telling the truth to the court to which she had lied. That revelation would not have happened ten years ago. Now, with wada and USADA, there is no such thing as an excuse. Doping is illegal in sport and in life, and it will be prosecuted under law and by the sports committe...

WADA in Biological News

Migratory songbirds have a specialized night-vision brain area

...nd Erich Jarvis of the Duke University Medical Center. Other co-authors were Gesa Feenders and Miriam Liedvogel in Mouritsen's laboratory and Kazuhiro wada in Jarvis's laboratory. The research was supported by the VolkswagenStiftung to Mouritsen and the National Science Foundation's Waterman Award to Jarv...

WADA in Biological Technology

Screening of Corticosteroids in Urine by Negative Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization LC/MS/MS

...orticosteroids from the doping control urine samples at 20 ng/mL below the wada minimum required performance level (MRPL), which is 30 ng/mL. In...e Fight Against Doping in Sport (CAF-DIS), Dublin, 2002. 4. 2005 wada Prohibited List 5. Deventer, K.; Delbeke, F.T., Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom...