HGH Weblog

A few weeks ago in this blog, it was reported that Vice President of Marketing, Peter Rost was supposedly fired from Pfizer after he blew the whistle on Pharmacia which had supposedly sold human growth hormone for “non-permitted activities”.

At that time Rost had earlier launched a lawsuit against Pfizer on behalf of the government.

However, the story continues as Rost is now suing Pfizer for wrongful dismissal.

Based on the law in New Jersey, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, it is “illegal to fire someone who complains of their employer’s illegal acts.” Pfizer released a statement that they feel that Rost has not basis for his allegations.

Tim Montgomery called it quits today after he was involved in a scandal involving the use of human growth hormone.

Even though Montgomery states he is innocent, he feels that retiring instead of waiting out a two year ban will be much better. Montgomery stated, "That's the main concern because I don't know what to tell my kids," Montgomery said. "I don't know what to tell my mother and father, even though they say they love me and don't worry about it."

The ban came as a result of an investigation completed into the BALCO founder Victor Conte, who admitted to giving out steroids to a number of athletes.

According to information released today, Serono Laboratories will be forced to pay $704 million dollars stemming from kickbacks to doctors.

The details of the settlement reached were released after a US District judge handed down the sentence.

The settlement involves kickbacks that were given to doctors over the AIDS drug Serostim. Serostim is a protease inhibitor drug that contains the human growth hormone Somatotropin. Serono is said to conspired to increase the popularity of the drug using fraud by offering doctors money and free trips to hand out the drug.

Court transcripts were released yesterday detailing the conversations between Dr. James Shortt and former Carolina Panthers player Wesley Walls, as stated in an article appearing on mercurynews.com.

Dr. Shortt is on the hot seat for illegally distributing steroids. However, Walls only had this to say, “I went down there in February, whenever. It was for a consultation and I never went back."

>However, according to audiotapes and transcripts released, it might appear that Shortt advised Walls on steroid, DHEA, and HGH use,” Don't use a shot, because that's always got a carrier molecule in it," Shortt told Walls. The doctor advised Walls against an oral form of testosterone placed between the cheek and gum. The reason for that (is) it wouldn't take much of a stress for somebody to say, `Okay, spit in the cup,'" said Shortt. "And if you do, you'll come up sky high on it."