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Tissue banks may get rules

Proposal follows shutdown of business.

Updated: Jan. 6, 2007 3:00 AM | Full story

Report finds suspicious charges for tire repairs

A state auditor's report released Tuesday raises questions about how the state has handled a contract for retreading tires, including a finding of possible overcharges.

Updated: Sep. 6, 2006 2:31 AM | Full story

Body parts anxiety widens

HIV, hepatitis tests urged for patients.

Updated: Sep. 1, 2006 3:12 AM | Full story

FDA tackles oversight of body parts trade

A scandal in N.C. is pushing study.

Updated: Aug. 31, 2006 2:50 AM | Full story

Body parts kickbacks frowned upon

Funeral official: Dignity at stake.

Updated: Aug. 30, 2006 3:11 AM | Full story

Tissue business is easy to enter

Philip Joe Guyett, the former trader of human tissue who was ordered to shut down, says it was easy to get into the industry, and people who know the body-parts business agree.

Updated: Aug. 28, 2006 5:10 AM | Full story

Patients fearful over suspect tissue

So far there is no evidence that bone and tissues collected by Donor Referral Services ended up at any Triangle hospitals.

Updated: Aug. 26, 2006 5:35 AM | Full story

Body parts revelation startles funeral officials

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Donor Referral Services endangered public health by failing to appropriately screen and label tissue collected for transplantation.

Updated: Aug. 24, 2006 5:26 AM | Full story

Tissue trader pleads his case

Rules were followed, provider maintains.

Updated: Aug. 24, 2006 2:30 AM | Full story

Body part supplier had local network

A Raleigh body parts supplier who was shut down last week used a Triangle consumer group to scout donors and carved corpses in a local funeral home's unsterilized embalming room.

Updated: Aug. 23, 2006 5:33 AM | Full story

Investigation of body parts expands

Some funeral homes are being looked into after a supplier of body parts was shut down.

Updated: Aug. 22, 2006 2:52 AM | Full story

FDA shuts Raleigh company

Health officials ordered a Raleigh company that collected human body parts for transplant to shut down Friday after inspectors found violations that posed a threat to human health.

Updated: Aug. 19, 2006 3:10 AM | Full story
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