Climbers are searching for ways to climb the highest mountains in the world in shorter time periods, including the use of ...

Recently, the Financial Times released an article featuring a climbing company whose goal is to offer their clients the use ...

EPO, also referred to as erythropoietin, is a hormone naturally produced by the kidneys that promotes the production of red blood cells. More red blood cells enable your muscles to get more oxygen ...

This spring, a group of commercial climbers plan to summit Everest in just a week by chemically boosting their ...

Better known as EPO, it is a naturally occurring hormone. But when injected in its synthetic form, EPO is a form of blood doping which has been employed by athletes - most famously Lance Armstrong ...

However, this glycoprotein hormone has prothrombotic properties ... and colleagues have found that subcutaneous administration of erythropoietin is associated with an increased risk of access ...