Texas Blood Tissue Center Scandal Side Effect
Texas Blood Tissue Center Scandal Side Effects. Health officials in numerous states as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) are tremendously worried about the gruesome tale of stolen body parts, missing persons, contaminated human tissue grafts, and the possibility … [Read more...]
BioMedical Tissue Side Effects May Lead To Lawsuits
BioMedical Tissue Services Scandal Side Effects. Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS) proprietor Michael Mastromarino has been accused of stealing body parts from approximately 1,077 cadavers without relatives’ permission from more than 30 funeral homes. Mr. Mastromarino then sold the unscreened tissue for profits, and forged documents … [Read more...]
Biomedical Tissue Services Scandal
Biomedical Tissue Services Scandal. The Associated Press broke the news about Michael Mastromarino, 44, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, who made millions of dollars by stealing hundreds of bodies and selling their body parts and tissue to medical companies under the company name Biomedical Tissue Services, located in New Jersey. Bodies were … [Read more...]
450 Body Parts Scam Cases
Body parts scam rocking New Jersey. More than 450 people nationwide now claim they received illegally obtained and possibly diseased body parts from a New Jersey-based scheme, according to court documents. The Food and Drug Administration has said it's concerned that the bone and tissue could be infected with the AIDS virus, … [Read more...]
U.K. Stolen Body Parts Probe
patients may have received transplants from disease-contaminated body parts. A small number of British patients may have received bone transplants from disease-contaminated body parts, according to a U.K. medical agency. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, which oversees the safety of medicines and medical … [Read more...]
Oversight of Body Parts Trade
Oversight of the trade in human tissues and organs. 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 and organs. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has formed a task force to study its regulation of the industry, … [Read more...]
Industry Sees 2nd Tissue Scandal
Body Parts Trade Tissue Scandal. 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 convicted him of embezzling money from the sale of a corpse that belonged to a medical school in California. But nothing stopped Philip Joe Guyett Jr. from … [Read more...]
Cadaver scandal has local tissue recipients worried
Illegal Selling Of Body Parts From Cadaver Scandal. 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 director claimed the parlor's previous owner had stolen down payments for funerals. Once inside the funeral parlor, O'Brien sensed … [Read more...]
Grim Trade in Human Flesh and Bone
Grim Trade in Human Flesh and Bone. They came to the funeral home in expensive cars, carrying clean hospital scrubs and pushing big tool boxes on rollers. Then they went to work in a makeshift surgical suite inside, cutting up cadavers and removing tissue and bone for eventual sale in the body parts market. "Two people would cut … [Read more...]
Human tissue recall took months
Human tissue company continued to harvest and ship potentially contaminated body parts. For nearly a full year, a human tissue company continued to harvest and ship potentially contaminated body parts while New York City police and prosecutors investigated. Meanwhile, federal and New York state public health officials took no … [Read more...]
Charles City Man Sues Over Implanted Human Tissue
Implanted Human Tissue Not Screened For Disease. 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 filed a federal lawsuit in Cedar Rapids against several companies, including the tissue harvester, the company that distributed the … [Read more...]
Patients given stolen body parts
Medical products made in the United States from stolen dead body parts have been brought to Australia. Medical products made in the United States from stolen dead body parts have been brought to Australia and implanted into dozens of people. Australia's medical watchdog, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) was last night … [Read more...]
Tissue scandal touches family of BBC’s Cooke
Cremation Ashes of BBC's Cooke Triggers Probe. 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 gurney and whisked away into the darkness. Three days later, Cooke returned home in a small, cardboard box. Susan Cooke Kittredge examined the … [Read more...]
A look inside a tissue processing plant
Industry has fallen under a cloud after a New Jersey company was accused of taking body parts without families' consent. accumulation This nonprofit tissue processor, located in a nondescript office park near San Francisco, makes about 300 products surgeons use to fix torn knee ligaments, bad backs, burned skin and a host of other … [Read more...]
Area residents file suit in looted body parts case
Looted Body Parts From Corpses. More area residents are suing a company accused of selling looted body parts from corpses to hospitals for tissue transplants. The latest filings bring to eight the total number of lawsuits pending in Baton Rouge federal District Court. Accused of secretly carving up bodies from funeral … [Read more...]
Tissue bank facing new suit
New Jersey Tissue Bank Named In A Lawsuit. Saying their mother's body parts were harvested without consent, the children of a deceased Hilton woman filed suit Friday against an embattled New Jersey tissue bank and a Hilton funeral home. The family of Georgia A. Beaton, who died in a Rochester hospital in April 2005 at the age of … [Read more...]
Bill sets jail term for body parts thieves
Days Are Numbered For Body Parts Thieves. Body-parts snatchers would face up to 20 years in prison under a new bill introduced in the state Assembly by a Bergen Democrat who owns a funeral home. The bill, A-3106, sponsored by Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-Englewood) and Dr. Herb Conaway Jr. (D-Burlington County), makes … [Read more...]
Sacred Heart Issues Advisory to All Transplant Recipients
Sacred Heart Advised Transplant Recipients To Be Tested. Sacred Heart Medical Center has advised testing for patients who received human tissue transplants that were later recalled after the supplier was accused of stealing body parts from corpses. The parts came from New Jersey supplier Biomedical Tissue Services, whose owner has … [Read more...]
L.I. Woman Suing Body-Carve Ghouls
Diseases Associated With Body-Carve Ghouls. 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 parts for-sale ring and two companies that sold their products. Pamela Grigorian, 48, of Middle Island, charges in a suit to be filed Monday … [Read more...]
Man Says Defective Tissue Transplanted in Surgery
Another Victim Sues Company Against Defective Tissue. 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 surgery at a Birmingham hospital. The federal lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of Frank D. Fife alleges he received defective tissue from … [Read more...]
Firm with Atlanta plant named in body parts suit
Probe on stolen body parts in New York underway. Medicraft Inc., a hospital equipment manufacturer with a plant in Atlanta, has joined a short list of companies named as defendants in lawsuits stemming from New York's stolen body parts investigation. Medicraft was named in a suit filed late Friday in Fulton County State Court by … [Read more...]
Patients fear body tissue was tainted
Tainted body tissue got problems. Kim Lanham remembers the exact moment she learned that donor tissue implanted in her neck might carry infectious diseases. "It was very unsettling, it was scary, it was sickening," Lanham, 46, said of the letter she received on Jan. 10, informing her that bone tissue implanted as part of an August … [Read more...]
Laws aim at body-parts traffic
Unknown number of recipients tested positive for HIV, hepatitis and syphilis. A medical detective has confirmed that an unknown number of recipients tested positive for HIV, hepatitis and syphilis, after receiving potentially diseased tissue from the now-defunct Biomedical Tissue Services. Dr. Arjun Scrinivasan, a medical … [Read more...]
U.S. transplant patients file lawsuits in stolen body parts case
Patients file lawsuits against stolen body parts modus. At least a dozen people who had routine operations said they caught deadly viruses and other germs from body parts stolen from corpses in a ghoulish scandal that has sent hundreds of people for tests. The patients tested positive for organisms that cause AIDS, hepatitis or … [Read more...]
Illegal Body Parts Used For Patients
Illegal Body Parts Under Tight Scrutiny. At least 15 Oklahoma medical facilities performed surgeries with potentially tainted bone tissue taken from cadavers on the East Coast, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Susan Fisher, 36, of Okmulgee, and Priscilla Loveland, 52, of Cushing, were among those who received certified letters from … [Read more...]
Illegal Harvesting and Sale of Body Parts, Tissue, and Organs
Illegal Harvesting and Sale of Body Parts. There was a time when Gothic horror stories would frighten moviegoers who paid their quarters to see mad scientists pay grave robbers to steal the body parts and organs from graveyards. Whether the goal was to create a monster like Frankenstein or to dabble in macabre experiments in a … [Read more...]
Tampa’s first potential body-snatcher scandal victim steps forward
A Victim Was Implanted With A Stolen Bone And Was Never Checked For Disease. As Jeffrey King and his wife Nancy walk around their Town 'N Country backyard, they can only wonder: Does Jeffrey have HIV, syphilis, or hepatitis? Last October, Jeffrey had a bone implanted in his jaw because a rotted tooth had damaged his jawbone. The … [Read more...]
