While the steroid crisis in professional sports blares from the media, the impact of these doping role models is hitting close to home. There is evidence that kids are using these chemical substances ...

After damning accusations by Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report, New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte has admitted not to steroid use but to using human growth hormone. Gary Wadler of the ...

Human growth hormone has been in the news recently because of the Mitchell Report on doping in Major League Baseball. HGH is one of the illegal substances used by baseball players, but it sometimes ...

If one wants to better understand how plants grow, one must analyse the chemistry of life in its molecular detail. Scientists are doing just that. New work reveals that a plant membrane receptor ...

The number of American teens who say they've used synthetic growth hormones (hGH) appears to be rising at an alarming rate. A new report says use of the performance-enhancing substance among teens ...

Sex steroid hormones can accelerate linear growth in children with growth hormone (GH) deficiency (GHD) without GH therapy. Therefore, GHD may not be suspected in children who are in puberty. LHRH ...

Anabolic substances like steroids may have great support for human growth hormone (HGH). That has been shown to increase energy, strength and muscle mass. Whatever the benefits of Anabolic steroids ...

ALBANY — A Plattsburgh pharmaceutical company and its president, a Canadian citizen, were fined $15,000 this week for mislabeling more than $1 million worth of human growth hormone that was imported ...