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Date Posted: 21:30:09 09/22/04 Wed
Author: spot
Subject: Re: WADA agencies latest addition to banned substances list
In reply to: sweatpea 's message, "WADA agencies latest addition to banned substances list" on 10:58:52 09/22/04 Wed

Finasteride was originally developed as a treatment for enlargement of the prostate, but it is best known in the USA as the hair loss drug Propecia. I guess Levi better use Rogaine instead.



>Verbatim from WADA's press release posted at
>gazzetta.it today:
>
>Londra -
>
>Si allunga la lista delle sostanze vietate
>dall'agenzia mondiale antidoping. It comitato
>esecutivo della Wada ha infatti deciso di aggiungere
>la finasteride, del gruppo di farmaci definiti
>inibitori enzimatici, all'elenco dei prodotti dopanti:
>una ricerca specifica ha evidenziato che la
>finasteride, usata solitamente per combattere la
>caduta dei capelli e per problemi alla prostrata,
>potrebbe essere usuata come agente mascherante.
>Saranno considerate dopanti anche le trasfusioni
>endovenose fatte non per scopi medici, cosi come dal
>prossimo anno anche il Beta-2, farmaco usuato spesso
>nei casi di asma, rientrera fra le sostanze proibite.
>
>Roughly translated:
>
>The list of banned substances by the world doping
>agency Wada grows. The executive committee has in
>fact decided to add finasteride (I don't know the
>North American drug brand equivalent, sorry), part of
>a group of drugs defined as enzyme inhibitors to this
>banned list: a specific study has revealed that
>finasteride, used solely to combat hair loss and
>prostate problems can also be used as a masking agent.
>Also considered for the purposes of doping practices
>are endovenous transfusions not done for medical
>purposes, and starting next year Beta-2, a drug used
>most often for asthma diagnoses will reenter the list
>of banned substances.
>
>I am no doctor, but it boggles the mind how far ahead
>the cheaters seem to be ahead of the medical
>profession.

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