10 Dec 2018
AMSTERDAM - Two major Dutch hospitals say they will stop importing human body parts from American firms, which they have been doing without any regulation for a decade. | Video
19 Jul 2018
WASHINGTON An Algerian man accused of recruiting an American woman known as "Jihad Jane" in 2009 and who originally pleaded not guilty to a U.S. charge of supporting terrorism, is expected to change his plea to guilty, a court filing showed on Thursday.
01 Jun 2018
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK Colorado has adopted a law to regulate companies that solicit bodies donated to science and sell the parts to medical educators, the governor's office announced this week.
22 May 2018
DETROIT A Detroit businessman who sold and leased human body parts was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday for selling diseased remains to medical educators.
22 Feb 2018
(This version of the Feb. 9 story corrects in 10th paragraph to 'prevention' from 'intervention') | Video
09 Feb 2018
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 A U.S. budget deal adopted by
Congress on Friday includes what advocates call a landmark
compromise to provide an estimated $1.5 billion over 10 years to
try to keep struggling families together, including those with
babies born dependent on opioids.
08 Feb 2018
PORTLAND, Oregon On July 20, a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship departed Charleston, South Carolina carrying thousands of containers. One of them held a lucrative commodity: body parts from dozens of dead Americans.
06 Feb 2018
WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday searched the offices of a Colorado businesswoman who operates a funeral home and a body donation company from the same building.
22 Jan 2018
WASHINGTON A Detroit businessman who sold and leased donated body parts for two decades was convicted Monday of defrauding medical customers by selling them diseased human remains.
05 Jan 2018
DETROIT The warehouse of a Michigan man who sold donated body parts to researchers was littered with dead flies, dog bowls and human remains “frozen together in flesh-on-flesh chunks,” a federal agent testified Friday.