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BioMedical Tissue Services Scandal
Tissue bank facing new suit
May 20, 2006 | www.democratandchronicle.com
Saying their mother's body parts were harvested without consent, the children of a deceased Hilton woman filed suit Friday against an embattled New...
Sacred Heart issues advisory to all transplant recipients
May 15, 2006 | www.kxly.com
Sacred Heart Medical Center has advised testing for patients who received human tissue transplants that were later recalled after the supplier was...
L.I. woman suing body-carve ghouls
May 13, 2006 | New York Daily News
A Long Island woman claiming she received potentially diseased bone from a corpse during a transplant procedure plans to sue the bosses of a body...
Firm with Atlanta plant named in body parts suit
May 9, 2006 | Cox News Service
Medicraft Inc., a hospital equipment manufacturer with a plant in Atlanta, has joined a short list of companies named as defendants in lawsuits...
Alabama man says defective tissue transplanted in surgery
May 9, 2006 | AP
A Trussville man has filed a lawsuit saying he received defective tissue from a company implicated in a body parts theft scheme when he underwent...
Patients fear body tissue was tainted
May 5, 2006 | The Courier-Journal
Kim Lanham remembers the exact moment she learned that donor tissue implanted in her neck might carry infectious diseases. "It was very...
Call it dark side of the corpse
May 5, 2006 | www.philly.com
The ongoing probe into alleged stealing of body parts has torn the veil off a well-kept secret in the human-tissue industry. A corpse is a valuable...
Laws aim at body-parts traffic
May 4, 2006 | www.philly.com
A medical detective has confirmed that an unknown number of recipients tested positive for HIV, hepatitis and syphilis, after receiving potentially...
As Scandal Widens, Many Who Received Stolen Body Parts and Human Tissue Claim to Have Been Infected with Deadly Viruses
May 1, 2006 | Newsinferno News Staff
While it will be difficult to prove with certainty, many people are claiming to have been infected with potentially deadly viruses from contaminated...
Patients claim they caught viruses from stolen body parts
Apr 29, 2006 | www.CITIZEN-TIMES.com
At least a dozen people who had routine operations claim they caught deadly viruses and other germs from body parts stolen from corpses in a ghoulish...
Untested Body Parts
