health

During FIFA's World Cup in South Africa, football fans may get their drinks served on a coaster with the message: "Don't leave this bar without picking up a condom." At least that is one suggestion from a recent consultation...

Doping is widespread not only in elite sports but also in fitness centers across the world and it is a highly underestimated problem. In this paper, Alice Riis Bach presents striking research that points out that doping use is...

Scandinavian countries are internationally known for their particular development of company sport. This is linked to the dynamics of Nordic welfare society and political concern about ‘public health’

Young people from indigenous cultures - societies which did not until recently have a history and culture of suicide - set alarming records of suicide. These young people could be helped through sport. Colin Tatz provides us with...

Sports tend towards, endorse and depend upon the physical transcendence of humanness. In this respect, sport offers a unique environment where transhumanism can gain social credibility and where its ideals become manifest and...

Doctor and senior consultant Michael Friedberg explains the origins, properties and medical uses of EPO in the treatment of kidney patients.

During the last three decades, Kenyans have dominated middle- and long-distance races. The reasons for this dominance are still not known but factors that may play a role are genetic endowment, upbringing and training.