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BioMedical Tissue Services Scandal
Body Parts Scam Tops 450 Cases
May 15, 2007 | AP
More than 450 people nationwide now claim they received illegally obtained and possibly diseased body parts from a New Jersey-based scheme, according...
U.K. Probes Use of Stolen Body Parts
Sep 21, 2006 | AP
A small number of British patients may have received bone transplants from disease-contaminated body parts, according to a U.K. medical agency. The...
Bogus records raise more fears in tissue trade
Sep 18, 2006 | AP
The medical records that accompanied the body of “Masterpiece Theatre” host Alistair Cooke were wrong in just about every possible way. ...
Hundreds of Body Parts Recalled in New Tainted Tissue Scandal
Aug 23, 2006 | AP
A leading medical firm has quietly recalled hundreds of human tissue products destined for transplants around the nation that were supplied by a...
Body-part harvesting company must close
Aug 18, 2006 | AP
Health officials ordered a North Carolina company that collected human body parts for transplant to shut down Friday after inspectors found...
Cadaver scandal has local tissue recipients worried
Jul 2, 2006 | www.suburbanchicagonews.com
It started in 2004 when New York City Police Department Detective Patricia O'Brien responded to a complaint from a funeral director in Brooklyn. The...
Scandal rocks human tissue industry
Jul 2, 2006 | AP
As a seasoned "cutter," Lee Cruceta thought he knew when it was safe to harvest human tissue from the dead for transplants to the living...
Tissue recall took months
Jun 28, 2006 | www.democratandchronicle.com
For nearly a full year, a human tissue company continued to harvest and ship potentially contaminated body parts while New York City police and...
Charles City Man Sues Over Implanted Human Tissue
Jun 21, 2006 | www.kcci.com
A Charles City man who underwent spinal surgery is going to court, saying doctors used parts from a cadaver never screened for disease. Keith Bruns...
Patients given stolen body parts
Jun 21, 2006
Medical products made in the United States from stolen dead body parts have been brought to Australia and implanted into dozens of people. ...
Untested Body Parts
