Challenges and threats to implementing the fight against doping in sport

Challenges and threats to implementing the fight against doping in sport.

Prominent doping cases in certain sports have recently raised public awareness of doping and reinforced the perception that doping is widespread. Efforts to deal with doping in sport have intensified in recent years, yet the general public believes that the 'cheaters' are ahead of the testers. Therefore, there is an urgent need to change the antidoping strategy. For example, the increase in the...

Contemporary issues in the fight against blood doping in sport.

Performance profiling: a role for sport science in the fight against doping?

In recent years, antidoping strategies underwent a significant development, from purely biochemical analyses and the detection of substances in urine samples to a biological approach, using blood samples, longitudinal monitoring, and probabilistic techniques. Nowadays, the appropriate timing of testing and the targeting of the athletes to be tested with antidoping tests is a major issue. A new ...

[Advances and challenges in the fight against childhood cancer].

Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among children and adolescents in many countries around the world. Most children with cancer live in countries with limited health care resources. As a result of the gradual decrease in child mortality from infections and malnutrition, the fight against cancer has become a worldwide public health priority. In the last decade numerous international...

New Trends of Doping in Sport