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The director, Henry Reid, was arrested along with another man accused of helping to sell the body parts. UCLA officials admitted Monday that some body parts were sold to companies, but said they were only used for medical research. They promised to revamp the cadaver program. “These alleged crimes vio late the trust of our donors, their families and UCLA,” said Dr. Gerald Levey, dean of UCLA's medical school. "We are inves tigating how our policies failed to detect these employees’ ille gal activities.” About 175 people donate their bodies each year to the uni versity for use in anatomy class es, officials said. UCLA offi cials did not say when the body parts were sold or how many there may have been. Attorneys representing the family members will seek an injunction from a judge Tuesday to stop the cadaver program. “We both wanted to help the young doctors learn as much as they could and the best way to do that is with bodies,” said Shirley Williams, 73, of Thousand Oaks, whose husband’s body was donated to UCLA after he died in 2002 from complications of a stroke. She said she has now decided against donating her body to the school. * Shese alleged crimes violate the trust of our donors, their families and UCLA. — Gerald Levey Dean of UCLA medical school “I just find it so difficult that someone would put money higher than the use of these bod ies for research,” she said. Reid, 54, was arrested Saturday for investigation of grand theft for allegedly selling corpses and body parts for prof it. He was released from jail after posting bail and has declined to comment. Ernest V. Nelson, 46, was arrested for investigation of receiving stolen property. A UCLA statement said Nelson. who also was released on l was not a university employ Nelson claimed he acted; middle man for six years,retr ing body parts from the meit school’s freezer and selling| to research companies. Hes Reid and other UCLA employ knew what he was doing. “1 call one of the most pits gious universities in the wo their director gives me the pm col, I follow that protocoli they charge me with receit stolen body parts?” Nelsont the Los Angeles Times Monday’s editions. He added that he collen the body parts by simplym ing into the UCLA Center twice a week withasi and taking them. Over they he said, he cut up approximat 800 cadavers and sold partsn many as 100 clients. “If I wasn’t supposed to there, why couldn’t they tell that?” Nelson asked. Louis Marlin, a lawyer UCLA, denied that the univea ty knew that the donatedtxxii were being cut up and others. He said Nelson the parts he took with casfe checks made out to Reid One other UCLA employ who is also believed to k accepted money has beenplaca on leave. That person has been identified or arrested. Marlin said Nelson!« brought the situation to w hen he filed a claim againstii university for $241,000forW parts he said he paid for and*: then ordered to return. New knee replacement surgerj gets patients on their feet faste By Lauran Neergaard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Less invasive knee surgery WASHINGTON — Just nine hours after Grover Thomas had his knee replaced, he hobbled home from the hospital. Five days later, he was walking unassisted, no crutch or cane in sight. Some 300,000 Americans a year have total knee replacements, and many might be green with envy upon reading this: The operation usually requires several days in the hospital and weeks on crutches, not counting arduous physical therapy. Now, a small but growing number of surgeons are implanting the manmade joint with less of that — through a mere 3-inch incision and without cutting a muscle and tendon that are crucial for knee flexing. The changes promise less pain and faster recovery. Dr. Richard Berger even offers it as outpatient surgery, so far sending Thomas and 22 other patients home within hours of the operation. It’s “a little like building a ship in a bottle,” says Berger, of Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center. “It takes a little bit of practice and a little bit of skill.” Patients recover three times faster than with standard surgery, says Dr. Alfred Tria of New Jersey’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, who pioneered the new method and has used it on 140 patients. ml usually requires several days In the hospo and weeks on crutches Some doctors have begun implant the complex man made |Oint using >' K nee teplao and weeks a new procedure Traditional incision: 12 inches Less pain, less recovery time A total knee replacement now requires only a 3-Inch incision and avoids cutting the quad muscle and tendon which are necessary for the knee to flex. This promises far less pain and a faster recovery. Stemmed tibial plait SOURCE Associated Press Women Continued from page 1 clubs, Dickey said. It was not until 1971 that there was an equal basis of admission for women at A&M, Dickey said. By 1973, 43 per cent of women in the United States were enrolled in college. Dickey said women have made accomplishments over the last few years, citing their repre sentation in the U.S. Congress and their positions at higher education institutions. Sixty-one members in the House of Representatives and 13 mem bers of the Senate are women. Also, 12 percent of corporate officers and 19 percent of col lege and university professors are female, Dickey said. “We’ve made progress, but haven’t yet closed the gap,” Dickey said. Women are still being paid less for.doing the same job as men, Dickey said, and female professors receive 12 percent less than their male counterparts. “We’ve made measurable progress, but what would define success?” Dickey said. “It is time for equal pay for equal work.” Dickey also addressed the dif ficulties encountered by many women forced to juggle a career and family responsibilities. Dickey said she was initially discouraged from going to med ical school because she was told she could not have a career, a husband and children. She was told that if she wanted to make it in a man’s world, she would have to do what a man does. “I’m looking forward to the day when as many men as women know that they should be here,” Watson said. Dickey encouraged women c u was V gooc were Braz T Braz T will ing I tv subje grass Mdi \\ State \\ with lobe onTi betw tea Ti Title ormer The lomen Title not to give up on their drei “Women have to have cos dence,” Dickey said, need the opportunity to drel be what they want.” At the luncheon, the ret ents of the Woman’s Proj Awards were named. The dent award was given to Bendoraitis, a graduate dent of education admin tion, who played a role it ting the Silent Witness gram to A&M. The fad award was given to Mat) Meagher, associate profe of psychology. 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