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Whenever athletes test positive for steroids, the excuses come flying. My least favorite has always been that they didn’t knowingly ingest steroids or other banned compounds. Somehow, the vitamins or protein shakes must have been tainted. I’ve been responsible for many different aspects of managing the use of pharmaceutical products for years and I have always found this excuse to be laughable. Until now. On July 26, the FDA released a statement warning consumer that a vitamin-B supplement has been shown to have two different anabolic steroids — methasterone and dimethazine. The FDA started looking into Healthy Life Chemistry By...

If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say ... BRANDEL CHAMBLEE Bill Macatee is a friend of mine so when I watched him interview Tiger Woods this past Sunday on CBS at the Masters I was particularly interested in the exchange. With the tournament still going on and Tiger with a glimmer of hope hanging in the humid air, questions and answers were exchanged. Some didn’t like the questions, nobody liked the answers or the way the answers were given. Which got me thinking, what obligation does Tiger, or any athlete, have to talk with the media? Nowhere, as far...

They never saw a doctor, didn't even talk to one by phone. The 13 West Palm Beach police officers facing suspensions for buying anabolic steroids told internal investigators they thought they had valid prescriptions because each had established a doctor-patient relationship to get the drugs. The company they patronized, the now-defunct PowerMedica in Deerfield Beach, was part of an online boom in anti-aging and hormone replacement clinics. Such clinics have popped up all over South Florida, operating in a murky area of the law, and they are drawing more scrutiny from regulators. Federal investigators raided PowerMedica in February 2004, and...