Jury to Get Body Parts Probe
D.A. Will present witnesses in gruesome case 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 Funeral Home, and possibly others, in the nationwide body-parts scandal, according to sources close to the investigation. The grand jury's … [Read more...] about Jury to Get Body Parts Probe
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...] about Biomedical Tissue Services Scandal
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...] about 450 Body Parts Scam Cases
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...] about U.K. Stolen Body Parts Probe
Patients urged to get tested after latest body parts scandal
Body Parts Scandal. 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 hepatitis and the AIDS virus because of scandals involving tissue suppliers. How much risk do they face? Answering that is tough because federal officials will not say … [Read more...] about Patients urged to get tested after latest body parts scandal
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...] about Industry Sees 2nd Tissue Scandal
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...] about Cadaver scandal has local tissue recipients worried
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...] about Patients given stolen body parts
Demand for Body Tissue Has Industry Scrambling
Body Tissue has become an indispensable part of modern medicine. The calls often come in the middle of the night, and technicians from Tissue Banks International are sent scrambling to hospitals, coroners' offices and funeral parlors to "recover" medically useful body parts from the dead. Ghoulish as the work sounds, it has become … [Read more...] about Demand for Body Tissue Has Industry Scrambling
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...] about Tissue scandal touches family of BBC’s Cooke
Two funeral homes in body-parts scandal are shut down
Philadelphia funeral parlors sucked for body parts scandal. Two Philadelphia funeral directors who have been under investigation in a body-parts scandal have agreed to surrender their licenses, the Pennsylvania Department of State said yesterday. Louis Garzone, of Louis Garzone Funeral Home in Kensington, and his brother, Gerald … [Read more...] about Two funeral homes in body-parts scandal are shut down
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...] about Bill sets jail term for body parts thieves
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...] about L.I. Woman Suing Body-Carve Ghouls
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 … [Read more...] about Firm with Atlanta plant named in body parts suit
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...] about Laws aim at body-parts traffic
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...] about Illegal Body Parts Used For Patients
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...] about Illegal Harvesting and Sale of Body Parts, Tissue, and Organs
