Healthcare
FDA Warns Against Tainted Human Body Parts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration threatens recall after bacteria and contaminants were found in human tissue products made by a top supplier to hospitals in the U.S. and around the world.
Skin and Bone
Recycling dead humans into medical implants is a lucrative trade, rousing concerns about how tissues are obtained.
In this investigation
Part two
Body Brokers Leave Trail of Questions, Corruption
PART TWO: Police in Hungary, Ukraine and the U.S. allege that tissue suppliers stole tissue and committed fraud and forgery in the drive to supply the industry with flesh and bone.
By Kate Willson | July 17, 2012
Healthcare
Video: Skin and Bone
Recycling dead humans into medical implants is a little-known yet lucrative trade.
By Kimberley Porteous | July 16, 2012
Ukraine Morgue Official Charged
RTI Biologics Suspends Import of Human Tissue from Ukraine
Pentagon, Congress Probe Tissue Contracts
WHO Plans Coding System to Track Trade in Human Tissue
Part four
Abusing the ‘Gift’ of Tissue Donation
Part three
Traceability Elusive in Global Trade of Human Parts
Healthcare
Products made from human tissue
Graphic: How Safe is Human Tissue?
Methodology: Behind the Numbers
Los cadáveres humanos son el botín en una búsqueda global de ganancias
Skin and bone
Key Questions About Human Tissue
About This Project: Skin and Bone
Key findings
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Consent: There have been repeated allegations in Ukraine that human tissue was removed from the dead without proper consent. Some of that tissue may have reached other countries, via Germany, and may now be implanted in hospital patients.
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Safety: Surgeons are not always required to tell patients they are receiving products made of human tissue, making it less likely a patient would associate subsequent infection with that product.
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Tracking: The U.S. is the world's biggest trader of products from human tissue, but authorities there don’t seem to know how much tissue is imported, where it comes from, or where it subsequently goes.
