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Brazil's top female swimmer tests positive for substance in asthma medication, reports say
OlympicTalk (blog) Etiene Medeiros, Brazil's most decorated female swimmer, failed a May 8 drug test for a banned substance found in asthma medication, according to Brazilian media. Medeiros, 25, is the world-record holder in the non-Olympic, short-course 50m backstroke … |
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Olympic Games / Drug suspicions / Traces of banned substance found in marathon …
Haaretz The Olympic Committee of Israel revealed yesterday that traces of a substance normally found in inhalers for asthma sufferers were detected, but the OCI will wait until the results of a second test bottle arrive on Friday. Olympics: Israeli Olympian Zemiro fails drug test |
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Key Immune Substance Linked to Asthma
Ivanhoe (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Nearly 28 million people in the United States have asthma. Asthma's signature symptom is extreme difficulty in breathing. It is accompanied by transient narrowing and long-term inflammation of the air passages and with time, … |
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Eleven research institutions in 11 states will receive more than $6 million in federal funding from fiscal year 2010 to support research on substance abuse
and associated problems among U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes
of Health, is collaborating with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to award
grants that will examine substance abuse related to deployment and combat related
trauma. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) are also NIH partners in this endeavor. NIH is
awarding more than $4 million in grant funding; the VA, around $2 million.
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