News tagged with 'Human Tissue Donation'

Oregon health officials announced today that as many as 40 people may have received organs or tissue contaminated with the liver disease hepatitis C. Investigators with the Oregon Health Department and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that the tainted organs and tissue came from one O

Under a new agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Cryolife Inc. will resume distribution of donor tissue to medical facilities with new restrictions. In August, the FDA ordered Cryolife to recall distributed human tissue processed from October 3, 2001, to August 2002 after determining that the co

A Texas medical center announced Tuesday that it has recalled body parts sent to dozens of research establishments nationwide after officials discovered that many may carry the AIDS virus. A spokesperson for the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston told health administrators yesterday that a former e

The family of a 23-year-old man who died last year after contracting a rare but deadly bacterial infection from a tainted tissue transplant filed a lawsuit Friday against the tissue provider. On November 7, Brian Lykins, who had been in otherwise perfect health, was killed by the rare but deadly clostridium bacterium

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), twenty-six cases of bacterial infections in patients who received musculoskeletal tissue grafts have been reported in the last four months. The CDC began investigating tissue donation procedures last November after Brian Lykins, 23, who had been i