Roger Clemens says his injections were vitamin B12 and Lidocaine, not steroids.
(Ray Stubblebine/Reuters-file 2007)
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The only people who legitimately might need vitamin B12 injections would be those with confirmed diagnoses of pernicious anemia, said Dr. George Blackburn, director of the Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. "And it's virtually impossible" to get pernicious anemia in modern America, where there is ample access to fish, eggs, and dairy ... (Full article: 256 words)
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