Sportsmen and women dope with the blood hormone Epo to enhance their performance. Re-searchers from the University of Zurich now discovered by animal testing that Epo has a performance-enhancing ...

EPO, a supposedly performance-enhancing drug infamously used by cyclist Lance Armstrong before he was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, does not actually work, according to a new ...

Researchers have now discovered, through animal testing, that Epo has a performance-enhancing effect in the brain shortly after an injection by improving oxygen transport in blood.

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Hematide’s arrival is the latest development in a long-running cat-and-mouse game between the drug police and the athletes who find ways to use drugs to improve their performance.

Athletes have been suspected of illegally using EPO to enhance their performance in everything from the Tour de France to the Olympics. Amgen developed the drug to treat chronic anemia in patients ...

Research shows that some performance-enhancing drugs don't improve athletes' performance, while placebos can do that.

"The truth is, you had a drug that was undetectable, that was wildly beneficial to performance," the disgraced cyclist told Bill Maher.

Epo has immediate impact on exercise performance In a recently published study, Max Gassmann, a veterinary physiologist from the University of Zurich, proved that Epo also drastically increases ...

That’s “selective androgen receptor modulators,” and in the 1990s they were viewed as a safer alternative to steroids. Most commonly taken orally, SARMs remain popular (boxer Ryan Garcia failed a drug ...