The type of spinal injections that are being blamed for the nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis are meant to provide patients relief from pain for a couple of weeks or months. But the practice has been considered controversial since before the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Massachusetts, said…
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The victim of a hit-and-run driver in Zion, Illinois in Lake County has been identified as 20-year old Francisco Jose Avila-Castro, of Waukegan, police say. Early in the morning on October 10, 2012, Avila-Castro was walking when he was struck by an unknown vehicle. Investigators recovered car parts from the…
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