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Untested Body Parts
Second Human Tissue Broker Faces Prison
Mar 10, 2009
| Parker Waichman LLP
A human tissue broker has entered a guilty plea and faces prison time for mail fraud, the News Observer reported. Philip Joe Guyett, 41, could...
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...
Human tissue bank issues recall
Nov 23, 2006
| AP
A Minnesota patient apparently was infected with an unusual germ from cadaver tissue used during routine knee surgery a discovery that has led the...
Embalmer Implicates Partner in Documents
Sep 28, 2006
| AP
A former funeral parlor owner and embalmer accused in a plot to plunder corpses for profit admitted to investigators last year that he and his...
Patients given transplants using plundered body parts
Sep 23, 2006
| Gulf Times
British hospitals are at the centre of an unfolding scandal after it has emerged that at least 40 patients have been given transplants using body...
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. ...
Patients urged to get tested after latest body parts scandal
Sep 1, 2006
| AP
For the second time in a year, people who received tendons, cartilage and other parts from donated cadavers are being urged to get tested for...
FDA Weighs Oversight of Body Parts Trade
Aug 30, 2006
| AP
The second body parts scandal in a year has federal health officials asking if they need to strengthen their oversight of the trade in human tissues...
Industry Sees 2nd Tissue Scandal in Year
Aug 28, 2006
| www.baynews9.com
It could have ended three years ago, when a leaky FedEx box containing an arm and legs turned up in Missouri. Or years before that, when a judge...
