Time to review anti-anemia boosters.
The sad fact is that the medicines mean more to results than do the athlete. There are many talented athletes, but only a few effective doping techniques. Thus, these Italian doctors have found a lucrative niche business.
This drug began Clinical Phase III trials in 2004.
C.E.R.A. "Continuous Erythropoietin Activator'
A new super EPO booster drug, More potent, faster acting and longer lasting.
Just what the sports medicine doctor ordered.
Read about it. It's more effective on performance than is a new Pinarello Magma FS
http://www.roche.com/inv-update-2003-12-08c
http://www.roche.com/inv-update-2004-11-01d
Danilo Di Luca wanted his 'go-fast-juice' by the 2004 TDF at the very latest---then got uninvited by those hypocrites (businessmen) who run that circus.
Lance stays in, and a Tour of Lombardy winner gets the sack. Go figure how doping affects even the very appearance of performance.
Insofar as testing---this one ought to be more slippery than araNESP given it's longer lasting effects on front-end loaded dosages.
Amgen has DynEPO which competes with this idea. And FibroGen has an oral EPO pill.
And then there are the HBOCs. Hemopure, Oxyglobin, PFC etc...