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From 2005 until early 2014, court records show, BRC received about 5,000 human bodies and distributed more than 20,000 body parts. As Reuters reported last year, BRC also sold body parts to U.S ...
A body broker (also non-transplant tissue banks) is a firm or an individual that buys and sells cadavers or human body parts. Whereas the market for organ transplantation is heavily regulated in the United States, the use of cadaver parts for research, training, and other uses is not.
A Minnesota tattoo artist and human remains aficionado was sentenced to 15 months in prison for adding the stolen corpse of a stillborn baby boy to his collection, among other smuggled body parts ...
MONTROSE, Colorado, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is interviewing former employees of a funeral home whose owner runs a side business on the same premises selling human ...
Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.
The parts stolen and sold included heads, brains, skin, bones, vital organs and other human parts. [6] Other reports state that the operation allegedly sold stillborn babies due for cremation. [7] One of the indicted buyers had posted a photo of a real human skull on Instagram and another had purchased skin with the intent to make leather. [8] [9]
A Wichita man who stole human body parts and fetal corpses when he worked at Wesley Medical Center and sold them to someone he met online was sentenced Thursday to spend 18 months in prison, court ...
Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS) was a Fort Lee, New Jersey, human tissue recovery firm that was shut down by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [1] on October 8, 2005, [2] after its president, Michael Mastromarino, and three other employees were charged with illegally harvesting human bones, organs, tissue and other cadaver parts from individuals awaiting cremation, for forging ...