Growth Hormone - Barriers to Implementation of HGH Testing in Sports
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Major League Baseball will hold a summit on 12 November in Beverley Hills, Calif. to discuss the peril and possible testing for the use of Human Growth Hormone. The summit will help NLB better understand the currently available methods for identifying use of HGH and the viability of urine testing for HGH in the future.
“After the Mitchell Report, one of my main goals was to bring together the leading anti-doping experts for an HGH summit,” Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. “The effective regulation of HGH remains one of the foremost challenges for anti-doping efforts in all sports. This summit is a significant step forward, and Major League Baseball is pleased that Dr. [Gary] Green, one of the foremost experts in the field, will head this initiative.”
Dr. Green said, “I am very excited that worldwide experts in analytical chemistry, medicine, law and ethics have agreed to participate in this meeting. Testing for HGH is a complex issue and much progress has been made. The goal of the meeting is to identify remaining barriers and develop strategies to overcome them.”
HGH is currently banned along with many other drugs under MLB’s drug policy, but there is no reliable urine test to reveal the extent of its use. Currently, blood testing is not allowable under the policy. MLB, along with the National Football League, has already a sizable amount of money in the lab at UCLA, trying to find a useful urine or blood test to accurately detect HGH use, however, with no positive results as yet.
MLB is partnering with the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP and the Office of Continuing Medical Education at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to present the summit entitled “Growth Hormone: Barriers to Implementation of HGH Testing in Sports.”
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