French doctors on trial for CJD deaths (Daily Telegraph) Seven doctors and pharmacists are on trial in Paris for indirectly causing the deaths of 110 children by injecting them with growth hormone tainted with the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Doctors on trial for 111 deaths from CJD (The Scotsman) SEVEN French doctors and pharmacists went on trial in Paris yesterday charged with the manslaughter of 111 children infected with a human variant of mad cow disease, 16 yea [News Source]

Doctors on trial for 111 deaths from CJD (The Scotsman) SEVEN French doctors and pharmacists went on trial in Paris yesterday charged with the manslaughter of 111 children infected with a human variant of mad cow disease, 16 yea [News Source]

French health officials on trial for mad-cow disease deaths (TODAYonline) Fernand Dray, 85, former head of hormones extraction and purification department at the Pasteur Institute, arrives at the Paris justice court, for the trial of French health officials charged with involuntary homicide in the death of more than 100 children infected with a human variant of mad-cow disease, 16 years after the first victim of their alleged negligence died. [News Source]

French health officials on trial for mad-cow disease deaths (AFP via Yahoo! News) Seven French health officials charged with involuntary homicide over the death of more than 100 children infected with a human variant of mad-cow disease went on trial Wednesday in Paris, 16 years after the first victim of their alleged negligence died. [News Source]

U.S. government shuts Chino meat processor. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has shut down the Westland Meat Co. in Chino, California after concluding workers committed egregious acts of animal cruelty, a week after the Humane Society of the U.S. released video showing employees tormenting cows that were too injured or weak to stand. [News Source]

Trial opens in growth hormone deaths. Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday in Paris for the deaths of more than 100 young people who died of a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones. [News Source]

French doctors stand trial for CJD scandal. Seven senior French doctors and former health officials stand trial today over the deaths of 111 people who were infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease when they were injected with growth hormones as children in the 1980s. [News Source]

Mad-cow doctors go on trial. Seven French health officials charged with involuntary homicide over the death of more than 100 children infected with a human variant of mad-cow disease went on trial on Wednesday in Paris, 16 years after the first victim of their alleged negligence died. [News Source]

Human form of mad cow killed French kids (Moldova.org) A trial in Paris will determine whether seven French health officials were responsible for the deaths of more than 100 children in the 1980s.The children died from the human form of mad cow disease after being injected with growth hormones taken from human corpses, the BBC reported Wednesday.Prosecutors said the corpses came from hospitals that specialized in infectious diseases and neurological ... [News Source]