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Stealing From the Dead
This story tells the exclusive inside story of an Indianapolis business man who purchased a funeral home in New York where funeral home workers are accused of raiding the cadavers entrusted to their care. It exposed delays by the King County Prosecutor's office in its investigation of the case. The federal government also failed. FDA records reveal years of violations cited against the tissue processor in this case, but the FDA leveled no clear sanctions until it finally launched the nation's largest human tissue recall.The oversight lapses allowed 1900 pieces of potentially unscreened tissue into hospital operating rooms across the country. The story uncovers the first Indiana patient to test postitive for a potentially life threatening disease after receiving an implant from the recalled batch.
Tags: tissue harvesting; funeral homes; cadavers; implants; FDA; transplants
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Death and Destruction
A collection of statistics-based stories including: state and local coroners offices that disposed of unidentified cadavers without informing authorities, the early death of professional athletes due to dramatically increased weight, the natural disaster declarations by presidents seeking re-election, and the elimination of helmet-use among motorcyclists.
Tags: Statistics; helmet law; cadaver; John Doe; weight gain; professional athlete; natural disaster; re-election; motorcycle; coroner
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Brains For Sale
This investigation revealed that the King County medical examiner's office was selling the brains of deceased mentally ill people to private research labs. In some instances, next-of-kin were not notified of these organ donations. In others, consent forms were incomplete.
Tags: medical examiners; medical research; cadavers; organ donation; organ sales; open records
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Wiring The New Docs
Human cadavers seem a thing of the past for students learning medicine. Newsweek talks about how the country's medschools use cutting edge technology to help quicken their students' learning. From robot patients to simulation techniques, the story also discusses whether such high-tech education helps students learn to handle emergencies any better.
Tags: medicine; education; simulation; learning; robots+
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A Hole In The Ground
The article attempts to assess the possiblity that convicted murdered, Hadden Clark, was a serial murderer whose victims had not all be found or identified. According to one cellmate, "[Clark's] just not the normal person you meet in prison who killed somebody... he should be locked up in a mental hospital for the ciminally insane." Clark also showed signs of having other personalities including two female ones, a mother and a daughter. The author presents evidence from interviews with Clark that he is responsible for at least two other unsolved murders.
Tags: Hadden Clark; murder; Wellfleet; cadaver dogs
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The Body Brokers
An Orange County Register investigation of organ donations revealed that "American businesses make hundreds of millions of dollars selling products crafted from human bodies, even though it is illegal to profit from cadaver parts." The Register found that private businesses get around the law by establishing financial and other questionable links to nonprofit organ or tissue banks.
Tags: cadavers; organ donors; ethics; profits; money tissue industry cosmetic surgery