Tissue trade grows on scarce donor supply and profits
Limited tissue supply fuels a booming industry with for profit firms and major nonprofits expanding to meet demand for ligaments, tendons, and bone. Companies report strong revenues while critics argue the line between charity and commerce blurs in the cadaver tissue market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Joshua Slocum
Funeral Consumers Alliance
James Forsell
American Association of Tissue Banks
Tissue Banks International Inc
Nies
Tutogen Medical Inc
CryoLife Inc
LifeCell Corp
Regeneration Technologies Inc
Osteotech Inc
LifeCell
New Jersey
AlloDerm
LifeLink Foundation Inc
LifeNet Inc
AlloSource
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc
Ray Denhoy
Piper Jaffray & Co
Denhoy
MTF
LifeNet
FDA
Bruce W. Stroever
American Red Cross
Stroever
Doug Wilson
Wilson
Virginia Beach
Alistair Cooke Death Ashes Case Sparks Body Parts Theft
New York authorities investigate the illegal procurement and sale of body parts following the death of Alistair Cooke. His daughter Susan Kittredge learns his ashes may conceal a donor supply, with reports that cancer was mislisted as heart attack and life details altered.
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Susan Cooke Kittredge
Middlesex
Alistair Cooke
New York
Upper East Side
Cooke
PBS
BBC
Kittredge
New York City
Crooks
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Michele Goodwin
Annie Cheney
Bones Distributed
Source
Toby Talbot
Central Park
Citibank
N.A
F.S.8
Citibank Texas
Fdic Citibank
Arc
Citigroup Inc
Middlesex, Vt
Citibank.com