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• Slugger's Suspension Sheds Light on Abuse of Hormone hCG

  In the aftermath of the May 7 announcement that Los Angeles Dodger star Manny Ramirez had been suspended for 50 games for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy, the topic of steroid abuse among professional athletes once again became a prime topic of debate and denunciation among columnists, bloggers, commentators, and fans. Ramirez, it was revealed, was found to have been using human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a synthetic version of a hormone that is naturally found in the urine of pregnant women. more...