Prime Minister Vlad Filat today participated in a ceremony of donating a consignment of medication to the Chisinau-based Oncology Institute, the government's press service has said.
The consignment worth 7.099 million lei contains seven types of hormonal preparations and was given by the commercial society Balkan Pharmaceutical Ltd.
Health Minister Vladimir Hotineanu thanked the company for the donation. He specified that the medication will be given free of charge to treat patients of the Oncology Institute and the ones treated in other hospitals.
"The oncology pathology is one of the most spread in Moldova and the treatment is costly. On this ground, the offered medicines are very necessary and welcome," the health minister said.
A manager of Balkan Pharmaceutical Ltd, Silviu Chiru, said that, by this donation, the company wants to help people ill with oncology diseases in Moldova. He voiced confidence that the medication will contribute to an efficient treatment of the patients.
Prime Minister Vlad Filat thanked for the donation. He stressed that, by this action, the company gives hope to people at risk.
"Moldova goes through a difficult period, and unfortunately, with poor budgetary possibilities. Therefore, such a gesture is not only welcome, but also helpful," Vlad Filat stressed.
The prime minister thanked the doctors of the Oncology Institute for their efforts, as well as for their attitude.
"You give hope to Moldova's residents by your work and we are grateful to you for this," the prime minister said.
Vlad Filat said that he wants to visit the Oncology Institute very soon again, so as to discuss details about the healthcare system, current problems and actions due to be implemented.
Showing posts with label Anabolic Steroid. Show all posts
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More Anti steroid propaganda from Britain's BBC.
"My mate was taking steroids and he was getting bigger and bigger, and then another friend started them and I felt sort of left out. That's why I started." Jack was 18 when he first took steroids and conscious of the perceived benefits of honing a chiselled body. "Women generally like defined, big blokes. It's like going back to caveman times - I'm the king of the castle. "You're at a gym, you're like 'aah, I'm lifting more than him, he's nothing'."
I was getting anger problems; I would suddenly lash out at my friends if they just said the wrong thing to me Jack.
Many users purchase their steroids online, including Jack. He told Radio 5live's Donal MacIntyre programme: "I went on the site, ordered them, really easy, shocking really. All you had to do was tick a box that you were over 18. "You could be eight years old and tick that box as long as you can read and write and understand what's going on. "Six days later they were delivered to my door."
But Jack liked the results he was seeing so much he quickly began to take double the recommended dosage. It was then that he started to suffer physical and psychological side-effects. "I was getting anger problems; I would suddenly lash out at my friends if they just said the wrong thing to me. "Before I had really thick hair and whilst I was on them I noticed my hair went thinner and thinner. I'm receding and I'm only 20. "Then I ended up developing breast tissue."
After an emergency trip to hospital, for an incident unrelated to his steroid use, Jack finally had to admit taking the drugs to a concerned doctor who noticed he had a damaged liver. This shocked his mother, Sandra, who was completely unaware her son was taking steroids. "I thought his moodswings were typical teenage adolescent behaviour. "Obviously I was aware he was getting bigger and bigger but he was, to be fair, working hard at the gym as well." "It hadn't rung alarm bells, but perhaps it should have with me." Jack's parents gave him an ultimatum to give up his steroid use or leave home. Jack abided by his parents wishes and now trains without the help of steroids.
Story from BBC news.
I was getting anger problems; I would suddenly lash out at my friends if they just said the wrong thing to me Jack.
Many users purchase their steroids online, including Jack. He told Radio 5live's Donal MacIntyre programme: "I went on the site, ordered them, really easy, shocking really. All you had to do was tick a box that you were over 18. "You could be eight years old and tick that box as long as you can read and write and understand what's going on. "Six days later they were delivered to my door."
But Jack liked the results he was seeing so much he quickly began to take double the recommended dosage. It was then that he started to suffer physical and psychological side-effects. "I was getting anger problems; I would suddenly lash out at my friends if they just said the wrong thing to me. "Before I had really thick hair and whilst I was on them I noticed my hair went thinner and thinner. I'm receding and I'm only 20. "Then I ended up developing breast tissue."
After an emergency trip to hospital, for an incident unrelated to his steroid use, Jack finally had to admit taking the drugs to a concerned doctor who noticed he had a damaged liver. This shocked his mother, Sandra, who was completely unaware her son was taking steroids. "I thought his moodswings were typical teenage adolescent behaviour. "Obviously I was aware he was getting bigger and bigger but he was, to be fair, working hard at the gym as well." "It hadn't rung alarm bells, but perhaps it should have with me." Jack's parents gave him an ultimatum to give up his steroid use or leave home. Jack abided by his parents wishes and now trains without the help of steroids.
Story from BBC news.
Polish bodybuilder dies after ignoring Doctor's advice, steroids blamed rather than his bad decisions.
Marcin Antoni Kladiwo from Salisbury Street, Shotton was a gym enthusiast who was in the process of applying for his door staff licence.
The 29-year-old Polish national had been taking a cocktail of food supplements, protein shakes and steroids before his sudden death on September 25.
John Hughes, coroner for North East Wales, told the inquest at Flint that Mr Kladiwo had a family history of heart disease.
Reading from a statement from girlfriend Christina Place, Mr Hughes said: “Marcin was very fit and he trained three times a week. He was conscious of what he ate and he didn’t drink alcohol. He drank protein shakes and took vitamin pills and also took steroids.”
The court heard Mr Kladiwo began injecting himself with steroids in February last year but switched to a tablet form after he complained of abdominal pains.
Mr Hughes added: “The first time Marcin injected himself with steroids, he felt unwell and his face was red.
“His eyes were bloodshot and he said he had taken double the dose.
“We went to bed and at four o’clock in the morning he woke up and asked for a sandwich. He said his heart was racing and he thought he was having a heart attack.”
An ambulance took Mr Kladiwo to Wrexham Maelor hospital where he had blood tests.
Hospital staff wanted him to remain on the ward for further tests but Mr Kladiwo discharged himself, the court heard.
“He was at home in Shotton on the day he died,” said Mr Hughes. “His brother Adrian had a phone call from Marcin to say he was feeling unwell. Adrian came home to the house they shared and saw that Marcin was vomiting in the toilet and was pale and sweaty.
“His brother called an ambulance and as paramedics were speaking to Marcin, he collapsed on the floor.”
Mr Kladiwo was rushed to the Countess of Chester hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Forensic officers discovered a number of supplements in his bedroom, including a bag of loose brown capsules in his bedside drawer that could not be identified.
Giving evidence Dr Will Kenyon, who performed a post mortem examination, confirmed the cause of death was a heart attack due to steroid abuse.
Mr Hughes, who recorded an accidental death verdict, said: “Often for weight lifters, they take steroids to bulk themselves up. We can never know how many steroids Marcin took because we we’re never there to see.
“He clearly had difficulties with his heart but the steroid abuse was the ultimate factor here.
"I don’t think for one second that he intended to take his own life, but he must have appreciated what he was doing.”
Story from Britain's Leader Live.
The 29-year-old Polish national had been taking a cocktail of food supplements, protein shakes and steroids before his sudden death on September 25.
John Hughes, coroner for North East Wales, told the inquest at Flint that Mr Kladiwo had a family history of heart disease.
Reading from a statement from girlfriend Christina Place, Mr Hughes said: “Marcin was very fit and he trained three times a week. He was conscious of what he ate and he didn’t drink alcohol. He drank protein shakes and took vitamin pills and also took steroids.”
The court heard Mr Kladiwo began injecting himself with steroids in February last year but switched to a tablet form after he complained of abdominal pains.
Mr Hughes added: “The first time Marcin injected himself with steroids, he felt unwell and his face was red.
“His eyes were bloodshot and he said he had taken double the dose.
“We went to bed and at four o’clock in the morning he woke up and asked for a sandwich. He said his heart was racing and he thought he was having a heart attack.”
An ambulance took Mr Kladiwo to Wrexham Maelor hospital where he had blood tests.
Hospital staff wanted him to remain on the ward for further tests but Mr Kladiwo discharged himself, the court heard.
“He was at home in Shotton on the day he died,” said Mr Hughes. “His brother Adrian had a phone call from Marcin to say he was feeling unwell. Adrian came home to the house they shared and saw that Marcin was vomiting in the toilet and was pale and sweaty.
“His brother called an ambulance and as paramedics were speaking to Marcin, he collapsed on the floor.”
Mr Kladiwo was rushed to the Countess of Chester hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Forensic officers discovered a number of supplements in his bedroom, including a bag of loose brown capsules in his bedside drawer that could not be identified.
Giving evidence Dr Will Kenyon, who performed a post mortem examination, confirmed the cause of death was a heart attack due to steroid abuse.
Mr Hughes, who recorded an accidental death verdict, said: “Often for weight lifters, they take steroids to bulk themselves up. We can never know how many steroids Marcin took because we we’re never there to see.
“He clearly had difficulties with his heart but the steroid abuse was the ultimate factor here.
"I don’t think for one second that he intended to take his own life, but he must have appreciated what he was doing.”
Story from Britain's Leader Live.
British anti-doping authorities to give athletes biological passports for 2012.
British anti-doping authorities will issue the country's athletes with so-called biological passports in an effort to further deter the use of banned substances in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympics.
UK Anti-Doping announced the scheme, which is similar to the one used by the International Cycling Union to monitor professional riders, on Friday in collaboration with the WADA-accredited laboratory at King's College London.
The King's College London Drug Control Centre is the only lab in Britain accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Traditional anti-doping tests compare the level of substances in samples against the average across an entire population. The new system of blood tests enables scientists to measure results against athletes' individual norms to spot unusual readings.
Story from the Canadian Press via google.
UK Anti-Doping announced the scheme, which is similar to the one used by the International Cycling Union to monitor professional riders, on Friday in collaboration with the WADA-accredited laboratory at King's College London.
The King's College London Drug Control Centre is the only lab in Britain accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Traditional anti-doping tests compare the level of substances in samples against the average across an entire population. The new system of blood tests enables scientists to measure results against athletes' individual norms to spot unusual readings.
Story from the Canadian Press via google.
Irish customs seized 42,000 tablets in 2009 internet drug clampdown.
More than 42,000 potentially illegal and harmful tablets were seized by health chiefs, gardai and customs last year, it was revealed today.
The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) said the haul was recovered after authorities joined an Interpol clampdown on internet drugs suppliers for the second year running.
The Operation Pangea II week of action in November targeted the online sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines in 24 countries.
“When you purchase medicinal products online there is no way of knowing whether they contain what they claim,” he said.
“At best you are wasting your money but the real risk is that you could be taking something which has not enough medicine in it to treat your condition or it could contain too much medicine or other ingredients which could seriously damage your health.”
The IMB’s annual report for 2009 revealed the number of enforcement cases launched over breaches in medicines law more than doubled on the previous year.
At the end of 2009 it had 3,037 cases on its books compared to 1,397 a year earlier.
The IMB said the increase was down to improved co-operation between customs, gardai and the board as they targeted illegal internet suppliers.
Two websites, linked to the online trade and hosted by businesses in Dublin and Kerry, were shut down in 2009 as part of Operation Pangea.
That year a total of 299,053 tablets, 55,789 capsules, 24 litres of liquids and 36.5kg of creams were seized by the IMB.
The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) said the haul was recovered after authorities joined an Interpol clampdown on internet drugs suppliers for the second year running.
The Operation Pangea II week of action in November targeted the online sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines in 24 countries.
“When you purchase medicinal products online there is no way of knowing whether they contain what they claim,” he said.
“At best you are wasting your money but the real risk is that you could be taking something which has not enough medicine in it to treat your condition or it could contain too much medicine or other ingredients which could seriously damage your health.”
The IMB’s annual report for 2009 revealed the number of enforcement cases launched over breaches in medicines law more than doubled on the previous year.
At the end of 2009 it had 3,037 cases on its books compared to 1,397 a year earlier.
The IMB said the increase was down to improved co-operation between customs, gardai and the board as they targeted illegal internet suppliers.
Two websites, linked to the online trade and hosted by businesses in Dublin and Kerry, were shut down in 2009 as part of Operation Pangea.
That year a total of 299,053 tablets, 55,789 capsules, 24 litres of liquids and 36.5kg of creams were seized by the IMB.
American drug counterfeiter gets 9 years in prison.
A former Weston millionaire who headed a group that peddled tens of millions of dollars in counterfeit prescription drugs nationwide was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison.
Michael Carlow, 57, had pleaded guilty to racketeering, fraud and 17 other counts in connection with selling adulterated cancer, HIV and other drugs into mainstream pharmacy supplies, including $42 million worth of bogus cholesterol drug Lipitor. The volume of activity touched off a statewide crackdown on the wholesale drug trade in South Florida.
Broward Circuit Judge Carlos Rodriguez sentenced Carlow to the jail time, plus 10 years probation and a $40,000 fine, said Oscar Gelpi of the Office of Statewide Prosecution. Carlow has been in jail since his 20-person ring was busted in 2003, on the state charges and related federal charges in Missouri.
His mother-in-law and brother-in-law, who were charged with being part of the operation, are set for trial in March.
Story from Florida's Sun Sentinel.
Michael Carlow, 57, had pleaded guilty to racketeering, fraud and 17 other counts in connection with selling adulterated cancer, HIV and other drugs into mainstream pharmacy supplies, including $42 million worth of bogus cholesterol drug Lipitor. The volume of activity touched off a statewide crackdown on the wholesale drug trade in South Florida.
Broward Circuit Judge Carlos Rodriguez sentenced Carlow to the jail time, plus 10 years probation and a $40,000 fine, said Oscar Gelpi of the Office of Statewide Prosecution. Carlow has been in jail since his 20-person ring was busted in 2003, on the state charges and related federal charges in Missouri.
His mother-in-law and brother-in-law, who were charged with being part of the operation, are set for trial in March.
Story from Florida's Sun Sentinel.
Bodybuilder Anthony Cuppari pleads guilty.
A key figure arrested in connection with an illegal steroid manufacturing and distribution ring in the Hanovers and Florham Park pleaded guilty today to distributing steroids to a juvenile and distributing cocaine to an adult.
Bodybuilder Anthony Cuppari, 27, of East Hanover, now faces being sentenced on April 9 to up to 10 years in prison.
Cuppari was among 16 people arrested in March 2007 in a case stemming from an investigation that began in November 2006. That probe centered on Cuppari and his best friend, Michael Dente, also a bodybuilder of East Hanover, and their charges included using Dente's basement to manufacture the steroids, authorities have said.
Cuppari is the last of the group to have entered a guilty plea in the case during the past two years.
The only other co-defendant whose sentencing is pending, professional bodybuilder Jason Arntz of South Brunswick, who pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to manufacture steroids.
Arntz had provided the expertise for manufacturing the steroids, although Cuppari and Dente also got information off the Web, authorities had said.
But Cuppari, a personal trainer who had been a volunteer assistant Hanover Park high school football coach, is the only one of the group who pleaded guilty to distributing steroids to a minor, and the only one to face an enhanced penalty. Cuppari pleaded guilty to a pair of third-degree charges: distribution of anabolic steroids to a juvenile and conspiracy to distribute one gram of cocaine to his then-girlfriend, an adult.
The juvenile, a then-17-year-old member of the Hanover Park High football team, also had been accused of buying gamma hydroxybuterate (GHB) from Cuppari, authorities had said.
Bodybuilder Anthony Cuppari, 27, of East Hanover, now faces being sentenced on April 9 to up to 10 years in prison.
Cuppari was among 16 people arrested in March 2007 in a case stemming from an investigation that began in November 2006. That probe centered on Cuppari and his best friend, Michael Dente, also a bodybuilder of East Hanover, and their charges included using Dente's basement to manufacture the steroids, authorities have said.
Cuppari is the last of the group to have entered a guilty plea in the case during the past two years.
The only other co-defendant whose sentencing is pending, professional bodybuilder Jason Arntz of South Brunswick, who pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to manufacture steroids.
Arntz had provided the expertise for manufacturing the steroids, although Cuppari and Dente also got information off the Web, authorities had said.
But Cuppari, a personal trainer who had been a volunteer assistant Hanover Park high school football coach, is the only one of the group who pleaded guilty to distributing steroids to a minor, and the only one to face an enhanced penalty. Cuppari pleaded guilty to a pair of third-degree charges: distribution of anabolic steroids to a juvenile and conspiracy to distribute one gram of cocaine to his then-girlfriend, an adult.
The juvenile, a then-17-year-old member of the Hanover Park High football team, also had been accused of buying gamma hydroxybuterate (GHB) from Cuppari, authorities had said.
Mobile steroids case in jury's hands; pharmacy accused of supplying star athletes.
The jury in a Mobile steroids case began deliberating Wednesday after hearing from the last two lawyers.
Attorneys for two of the men accused of helping to orchestrate a nationwide conspiracy centered on a Mobile compounding pharmacy told jurors during closing arguments that their clients could not be held responsible for the conduct of three doctors who prescribed anabolic steroids.
Brett W. Branch, who previously worked as a salesman for Applied Pharmacy Services in Mobile, later founded a company called Infinite Health in Eaton, Colo.
According to testimony at the trial, Infinite Health paid three doctors, Kelly Wade Tucker, Kenneth M. Olds and Scott A. Corliss, to write prescriptions for steroids to customers that Branch recruited from gyms, spas and health clubs. Among Infinite Health's customers, according to testimony, was the police chief of Cheyenne, Wyo.
But Branch's attorney, Dennis Knizley, said his client ran a legitimate business and that the decision to prescribe steroids rested with the physicians, who conducted physicals and blood tests of the buyers.
"It is uncontroverted that these doctors were respected. They were real doctors with real patients," Knizley said. "It is uncontroverted that these doctors wrote these prescriptions of their own discretion."
Attorney Richard Alexander struck a similar note on behalf of his client, Ronald E. Winter, a Colorado sheriff's deputy who originally sought treatment for a bad back and ended up becoming a part owner and employee of Branch's company.
"Ron Winter is not a doctor. He's not a pharmacist. He's a layman," Alexander said. "How in the world would he know there was something wrong with that prescription?"
According to evidence at the trial, Branch earned commissions for steroids customers that he referred to Applied Pharmacy.
His ex-wife testified that his commitment to steroids ran so deep that he was prepared to inject his own children with steroids -- to help his 13-year-old daughter perform better in volleyball and prevent his 11-year-old boy from being chubby.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna Dobbins told jurors Wednesday that the defendants constructed a series of sham memos and meetings to make it appear as though they were complying with the law.
"It's not what the defendants said, it's what they did," she said.
Attorneys for two of the men accused of helping to orchestrate a nationwide conspiracy centered on a Mobile compounding pharmacy told jurors during closing arguments that their clients could not be held responsible for the conduct of three doctors who prescribed anabolic steroids.
Brett W. Branch, who previously worked as a salesman for Applied Pharmacy Services in Mobile, later founded a company called Infinite Health in Eaton, Colo.
According to testimony at the trial, Infinite Health paid three doctors, Kelly Wade Tucker, Kenneth M. Olds and Scott A. Corliss, to write prescriptions for steroids to customers that Branch recruited from gyms, spas and health clubs. Among Infinite Health's customers, according to testimony, was the police chief of Cheyenne, Wyo.
But Branch's attorney, Dennis Knizley, said his client ran a legitimate business and that the decision to prescribe steroids rested with the physicians, who conducted physicals and blood tests of the buyers.
"It is uncontroverted that these doctors were respected. They were real doctors with real patients," Knizley said. "It is uncontroverted that these doctors wrote these prescriptions of their own discretion."
Attorney Richard Alexander struck a similar note on behalf of his client, Ronald E. Winter, a Colorado sheriff's deputy who originally sought treatment for a bad back and ended up becoming a part owner and employee of Branch's company.
"Ron Winter is not a doctor. He's not a pharmacist. He's a layman," Alexander said. "How in the world would he know there was something wrong with that prescription?"
According to evidence at the trial, Branch earned commissions for steroids customers that he referred to Applied Pharmacy.
His ex-wife testified that his commitment to steroids ran so deep that he was prepared to inject his own children with steroids -- to help his 13-year-old daughter perform better in volleyball and prevent his 11-year-old boy from being chubby.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna Dobbins told jurors Wednesday that the defendants constructed a series of sham memos and meetings to make it appear as though they were complying with the law.
"It's not what the defendants said, it's what they did," she said.
High altitude causes weight loss without exercise.
Just a week at high altitudes can cause sustained weight loss, suggesting that a mountain retreat could be a viable strategy for slimming down.
Overweight, sedentary people who spent a week at an elevation of 8,700 feet lost weight while eating as much as they wanted and doing no exercise. A month after they came back down, they had kept two-thirds of those pounds off. The results appear in the Feb. 4 Obesity.
“What is nice about this paper, is that it clearly demonstrates that there’s a lasting effect of decreased caloric intake, that people eat less even a month after they come out of high altitude,” said Massachusetts General Hospital anesthesiologist Kay Leissner, who studies high altitude physiology, but was not involved in the study.
Story from Wired Magazine.
Overweight, sedentary people who spent a week at an elevation of 8,700 feet lost weight while eating as much as they wanted and doing no exercise. A month after they came back down, they had kept two-thirds of those pounds off. The results appear in the Feb. 4 Obesity.
“What is nice about this paper, is that it clearly demonstrates that there’s a lasting effect of decreased caloric intake, that people eat less even a month after they come out of high altitude,” said Massachusetts General Hospital anesthesiologist Kay Leissner, who studies high altitude physiology, but was not involved in the study.
Story from Wired Magazine.
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