Trial Opens In Growth Hormone Deaths

PARIS - Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday for the deaths of more than 100 young people who contracted a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones. Hundreds packed the courtroom where the defendants faced charges, including manslaughter and deception, following a more than 16-year investigation into the deaths of at least 110 young people from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD.

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