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BioMedical Tissue Services Scandal
Demand for body tissue has industry scrambling
Jun 17, 2006 | AP
The calls often come in the middle of the night, and technicians from Tissue Banks International are sent scrambling to hospitals, coroners' offices...
New lawsuit filed in human tissue scandal
Jun 16, 2006 | www.democratandchronicle.com
The family of a local woman who died last year has filed suit against a New Jersey human tissue company and a Hilton funeral home, saying the woman's...
Jury to get body parts probe
Jun 13, 2006 | www.philly.com
The Philadelphia district attorney's office is gearing up to subpoena witnesses to testify before a grand jury about the role of the Louis Garzone...
Tissue scandal touches family of BBC’s Cooke
Jun 12, 2006 | AP
After Alistair Cooke’s death in the early morning of March 30, 2004, he was wheeled out of his Upper East Side apartment on a collapsible...
Body-parts scandal like a grade-B horror flick
Jun 11, 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...
Lax oversight increases odds of tainted tissue
Jun 11, 2006 | AP
Don't worry, the doctor told Brian Lykins' parents, as he prepared to use cartilage from a cadaver to fix their son's knee. A million people a year...
Inspections decline in tissue industry
Jun 11, 2006 | AP
A piece of fruit coming into the United States is more likely to get government attention than a ligament or heart valve taken from a cadaver and...
Surgeries using cadaver tissue pose risks
Jun 10, 2006 | AP
Don't worry, the doctor told Brian Lykins' parents, as he prepared to use cartilage from a cadaver to fix their son's knee. A million people a year...
Area residents file suit in looted body parts case
May 23, 2006 | www.2theadvocate.com
More area residents are suing a company accused of selling looted body parts from corpses to hospitals for tissue transplants. The latest filings...
Gaps in system let ghoulish tale unfold
May 21, 2006 | www.democratandchronicle.com
His career ravaged by narcotics addiction and a felony drug arrest, Dr. Michael Mastromarino, a New Jersey oral surgeon, agreed in 2002 to a...
Untested Body Parts
