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The Battle Continues Against Pharmacological Cheating in Sports
Even after steroids scandals in Major League Baseball and more than 30 athletes were withheld from the winter Olympics in Vancouver for breaking anti-doping rules, why do athletes still engage in pharmacological cheating? The latest concern among sport officials is a new erythropoietin called Hematide, still in investigate trials. Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's Prohibited List and Methods Sub-Committee, talks to host Bruce Japsen about the never-ending battle against the abuse of pharmacology in order to enhance athletic ability.
 Bruce Japsen has been a healthcare business reporter for the Chicago Tribune since May of 1998. Mr. Japsen covers pharmaceutical and device makers, economic issues, managed-care companies, doctor practices and other physician issues. He has covered everything from the Vioxx-product liability trials and controversies involving the foray of Walgreens and Wal-Mart into retail medicine, to bird flu vaccine production and stem cell research. In addition to the regular healthcare business stories he writes, he has a regular Thursday column in the Tribune business section and is a regular on WGN radio and television, CBS-owned WBBM-News radio 780 and Tribune-owned CLTV. Reach his work at chicagotribune.com or follow him on Twitter.
Dr. Gary Wadler is an internist with special expertise in the field of drug use in sports. He is the lead author of the textbook Drugs and the Athlete. Dr. Wadler chairs the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Prohibited List and Methods Sub-Committee and is an ex-officio member of WADA's Health, Medicine, and Research Committee. He has been a medical advisor to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and is a past trustee of the American College of Sports Medicine's board and of the Women's Sports Foundation.
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