News Archive

Older news stories of interest.

• • “World Doping Agency Says Russian Hackers Stole Medical Records of Olympic Athletes”
    by Laura Mills and Matthew Futterman, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 13, 2016.
  • “How To Avoid Tainted & Harmful Supplements”
    by Yahoo Sports, Sept. 8, 2016.

• “Walmart agrees to change supplement label, pay refunds”
  by Dar Danielson, RadioIowa.com, Sept. 6, 2016.
• “Court Upholds Doping-Related Ban on Russia at Paralympics”
  by Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, August 23, 2016.
• “Ethicists unpack the argument for why doping should be kept out of sports”
  by Olivia Goldhill, QZ.com, August 21, 2016.
• “Anabolic steroids taint Olympic competition, but it’s what they do to the human brain that is terrifying”
  by Ruth Wood, Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2016.
• “Some Weight Loss Pills Still Contain Banned Substances”
  by Jeneen Interlandi, Consumer Reports, August 17, 2016.
• “Does food make the Olympian?”
  by Leigh Anne Tiffany, PBS News Hour, August 16, 2016.
• “’My organs were poisoned’: Former dopers issue grim warning to Olympians”
  by Sarah Dingle, ABC, August 16, 2016.
• “Olympic Athletes Still Use Some Rx Drugs as a Path to ‘Legal Doping’”
  by Jon Hamilton, NPR, August 10, 2016.
• “Lilly King and the new vanguard in battle against sports doping”
  by Christa Case Bryant, Christian Science Monitor, August 9, 2016.
• “Russian paralympians put doping scandal back in the spotlight”
  by Owen Fairclough, CCTV America, August 9, 2016.
• “The Drugs Won: The Case for Ending the Sports War on Doping”
  by Patrick Hruby, Vice Sports, August 1, 2016.
• “Who’s Really in the Fight Against Doping? It’s Clear Once Again”
  by Jere Longman, New York Times, July 24, 2016.
• “Blue Jays’ Chris Colabello has ‘nothing to say sorry for’”
  by Brendan Kennedy, The Star, July 22, 2016.
• “Intrigue abounds as Colabello returns among testing questions”
  by Shi David, Sportsnet, July 13, 2016.
• “Bigorexia: Rise of men with body image issues battling depression”
  by Sue Dunlevy, New Zealand Herald News, July 4, 2016.
• “FDA Targets High-Risk Firms for Dietary Supplement GMP Re-inspections”
  blog post from Natural Products Insider, June 20, 2016.
• “British athletes demand stronger action from Wada on drug cheats”
  by Sean Ingle, The Guardian, June 13, 2016.
• “How Hartpury anti-doping classes are changing student perspective”
  by The Citizen, Gloucestershire Live, June 6, 2016.
• “Warning letter provides insight into labeling responsibilities”
  by Hank Schultz, Nutraingredients-USA.com, May 31, 2016.
• “What’s the Right Role for Performance-Enhancing Drugs?”
  (An Interview with Don H. Catlin, M.D.) by Neil Chesanow, Don H.Catlin, M.D., Medscape, August 26, 2016.
• “The Other Drug War: Testing for Doping in Olympic Athletes”
  by Don H. Catlin, M.D., Medscape, August 26, 2016.
• “It’ll Be Really Hard to Test for Doping at the Rio Olympics”
  by Chelsea Leu, Wired, June 30, 2016.
• “World Anti-Doping Agency shuts down Rio doping control lab less than two months before Olympics”
  CBS News, June 28, 2016.
• “FDA Targets High-Risk Firms for Dietary Supplement GMP Re-inspections”
  blog post from Natural Products Insider, June 20, 2016.
• “British athletes demand stronger action from Wada on drug cheats”
  by Sean Ingle, The Guardian, June 13, 2016.
• “How Hartpury anti-doping classes are changing student perspective”
  by The Citizen, Gloucestershire Live, June 6, 2016.
• “Warning letter provides insight into labeling responsibilities”
  by Hank Schultz, Nutraingredients-USA.com, May 31, 2016.
• “Chinese Olympic swimmers move to Turkey camp”
  by Jessica Halloran, The Daily Telegraph, May 21, 2016.
• “Come Clean, Russia, or No Rio”
  by Travis T. Tygart, New York Times, May 25, 2016.
• “Interview: No quick fix to sports’ troubles, Johnson Says”
  Reuters, May 19, 2016.
• “The Latest: Kenya Has Agreement on ‘Road Map’ to Compliance”
  Associated Press, May 18, 2016.
• “IOC: 31 Caught in Retests of 2008 Beijing Olympic Samples”
  by Stephen Wilson, Associated Press (ABC News), May 17, 2016.
• “Russian Insider Says State-Run Doping Fueled Olympic Gold”
  by Rebecca R. Ruiz and Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, May 12, 2016.
• “Russia Frustrates Doping Tests Before Olympics”
  by Paul Kelso, Sky News, May 11, 2016.
• “Social Media, Where Sports Fans Congregate and Misogyny Runs Amok”
  by Juliet Macur, New York Times, April 28, 2016.
• “Pakistan bans all body-building events after death of four sportsmen”
  by M. Zulqernain, India Today, April 24, 2016.
• “UFC’s anti-doping enforcer recommends use of unadulterated supplements”
  by Michael Johnsen, Drug Store News, April 20, 2016.
• “Fitness app Strava faces an uproar over an elite cycling user linked to doping”
  by Paresh Dave, Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2016.
• “Former Olympic doctor for China says doping still exists in bid for Gold medals”
  by Debi Howard, ITV News, April 14, 2016.
• “WADA: Uncertainty over meldonium could void sanctions”
  ESPN.com news services, April 14, 2016.
• “List of 27 Supplements Containing Banned Substances: Here Are Their Brand Names”
  by Paula Mooney, Inquistr, April 10, 2016.
• “Some Fat-Burning Supplements Contain Banned Stimulant Drug”
  by Katherine Hobson, NPR, April 7, 2016.
• “Meldonium Is the Suspect as Russia Loses Athletes”
  by Patrick Reevell, The New York Times, April 6, 2016.
• “Experts say there’s little evidence meldonium enhances performance”
  by Rachel Axon, USA Today, April 8, 2016.
• “Winter Sports Athletes Ask for the Doping Spotlight”
  by Michael Powell, The New York Times, March 29, 2016.
• “Did doping run these world-beaters to their early graves?”
  by Daniel Wesangula and Robin Toskin, Standard Digital, March 26, 2016.
• “More than 100 athletes have tested positive for meldonium already in 2016”
  by Stuart Clarke, Cycling Weekly, March 21, 2016.
• “A New Front in the War on Doping”
  by Kevin Helliker and Sara Germano, Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2016.
• “What Is Meldonium? Drug Sharapova Admitted to Taking Improves Blood Flow”
  by Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, March 8, 2016.
• “Rio: Anti-doping agency to be deployed”
  by Ana, Jacaranda FM, Feb. 19, 2016.