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"On Thursday morning, representatives of the horse-racing industry told Congress that thoroughbred racing's drug problem was a myth. On Thursday afternoon, a report by the California Horse Racing Board revealed that Bob Baffert, a Hall of Fame trainer, had been giving every horse in his barn a thyroid hormone without ever checking to see if any of them had thyroid problems."

"Major League Baseball is all set to use evidence from more than one of those cases in its effort to suspend Alex Rodriguez in lieu of a laboratory test."

"According to an updated systematic review published in The Cochrane Library, exercise could be of great help to people suffering from depression. Authors of the review found evidence suggesting that symptoms of depression are reduced by exercises, although they say more high quality trials are needed."

"Alex Rodriguez's attorney Joe Tacopina has remarked there was enough evidence the Yankees slugger used only legal supplements in recent years."

"According to testimony during arbitration to overturn the doping ban of New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, it was revealed that the baseball star paid $305,000 to buy evidence and hide potentially incriminating links to Biogenesis, the now-defunct Florida clinic behind the doping scandal of baseball."

"According to a new Korean study, taking medications containing caffeine was tied to a doubled or even tripled risk of having a stroke. The findings of this study may seem to contradict recent evidence suggesting coffee and tea exert protective effects."