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
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...] about Patients fear body tissue was tainted
