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Tuesday, March 9, 2004
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UCLA admits to sale of body part
as donors family sue university
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By Chris T. Nguyen
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES
Officials at the University of
California, Los Angeles,
acknowledged Monday that
parts of bodies donated for
medical research there had
instead been sold, and apolo
gized for a failure in oversight.
Donors’ families, meanwhile,
filed a lawsuit against the
school, claiming the director of
the university’s Willed Body
Program had been selling body
parts illegally for years with the
knowledge of other UCLA offi
cials. UCLA has denied know
ing about the sales.
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.
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and weeks on crutches Some doctors have begun implant
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a new procedure
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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.
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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.
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