Testosterone

More American men who used to feel their oats but now feel their age are deciding to do something about it. “It” is looking into testosterone. Paul To is 38 years old and was feeling sluggish and immediately thought he must have Low T....

Guys, let's face it. Getting older sucks. We start losing our hair, our strength and our athletic performance. Plus, it it becomes more and more inappropriate to hit on 22-year-old women. While we can't do much about the latter, making sure we take...

The massacres in Aurora, Colo., and at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee. The shootings outside the Empire State Building, in which an ex-employee killed his boss. Escalating gang warfare. In recent months, violence seemed to erupt everywhere. To get a...

Lance Armstrong's decision not to fight long-standing allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs to spike seven Tour De France cycling championships came within days of Roger Clemens' decision to lace up his spikes again. (The 50-year-old...

Eastern Panhandle Anesthesia Associates MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Dr. Christopher M. Spiess, anesthesiologist, recently joined Eastern Panhandle Anesthesia Associates, based at City Hospital in Martinsburg. Spiess recently completed a residency in...

It may be a desire for immortality that pushes some athletes to seek to transcend the limitations of mere mortal bodies through the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Certainly Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner and Olympic champion,...

Back to being a Pro Bowl grump Wednesday at Halas Hall, Brian Urlacher refused to clarify the mysterious circumstances surrounding treatment of his injured left knee. Urlacher's reaction provided the least surprising aspect of a story that cannot go away...

If sport is about mythmaking, then clean sport might be the biggest myth of all. Baseball was reminded of this the hard way Wednesday when Bartolo Colon of the Oakland Athletics was suspended 50 games after testing positive for testosterone. Melky...

Melky Cabrera, the San Francisco Giants’ All-Star outfielder, has tested positive for a banned substance and has been suspended for 50 games. Cabrera tested positive for testosterone, one of the 70 steroids listed as banned by the MLB. In a...

Debbie Dunn, who made the 2012 U.S. Olympic team in the pool of runners for the 4 x 400-meter relay, tested positive for the likely presence of an anabolic steroid at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. Dunn, 34, of Norfolk, Va., finished fourth...

At his heaviest Mark Shacklett tipped the scales at about 375 pounds--then he lost weight and that's when his Type 2 diabetes really flared up. That's when Baylor-Irving Dr. Douglas Cluff decided to check Marks testosterone level. "Low and behold,&...

It’s been difficult to come to terms with my masculinity, all 260 pounds of grotesque mannishness. I do so love getting makeovers at the hands of my 7-year-old daughter, but when a perfectly applied coat of crème foundation is marred by a 5 o&...