USA TODAY BY: CHRISTINE BRENNAN 3/9/16 A tip from a confidential source to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in March 2014 that Eastern European athletes were using the drug meldonium as a performance enhancer triggered the doping scandal that now has [...]

WIRED ERIC NIILER 3/8/16 MY MOM TOOK erythropoietin—EPO. It helped her tired, anemic body pump out more red blood cells for years before it became the drug of choice for professional cyclists in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I [...]

ASSOCIATED PRESS 3/7/16 Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova says she failed a drug test for meldonium at the Australian Open. The drug was only banned in January and there has been a string of failed tests by athletes in several [...]

NEW YORK TIMES BY: CHRIS CLAREY & MIKE TIERNEY 3/7/16 Maria Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam champion and the world's highest-paid female athlete, announced Monday that she had tested positive for the recently banned drug meldonium at the Australian Open. [...]

USA TODAY BY: A.J. PEREZ 3/7/16 The banned drug that tennis star Maria Sharapova tested positive for has been used by athletes in recent years, a 2015 study found. Mildronate, also known as meldonium, was developed and manufactured in Latvia [...]