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Article: Panel recommends UC medical schools use barcodes, video cameras to thwart willed body program abuses.
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- Transplant News
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- January 31, 2005
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Almost a year after a parts selling scheme forced the suspension of its willed body program, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical school officials officials say they have come up with an answer to prohibit such a scandal in the future - barcodes and video cameras.
UCLA's willed body program, the oldest in the country, had been receiving about 175 donated bodies every year and had a waiting list of more than 11,000 individuals willing to donate before the program was suspended on March 9, 2004 following allegations 2 employees had engaged in selling body parts from cadavers that had been donated to the school of medicine. (Transplant News, March ...