Performance-Enhancing Drug Use More Prevalent than Type 1 Diabetes or HIV

Performance-Enhancing Drug Use More Prevalent than Type 1 Diabetes or HIV

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“There is a widespread misperception that PED use is safe or that adverse effects are manageable,” said Shalender Bhasin, MD, Director, Research Program in Men's Health: Aging and Metabolism, at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and chair of the task …
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Progress in Addressing the Threat of Poor Quality Medicines Prompts USAID to

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Rockville, Maryland — The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is pleased to report that USAID has extended the Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) program through September 2019. USP has been implementing the PQM program since 2009. … due to …
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The Fight Against HIV: Will Congress End the Syringe Exchange Funding Ban?

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In a letter to the senator, 70 Maryland-based scientists and doctors wrote that Mikulski's home state already had seen the benefits of exchange in Baltimore, where syringe programs have helped reduce the state's rate of HIV transmission from injection …
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