By Paul Carpenter, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Jan. 22--The optimistic view is that only 17 people in the Lehigh Valley are walking around with body parts transplanted from diseased, rotting corpses -- as procured by grave robbers or some funeral homes.

By Kitty Caparella, Philadelphia Daily News Dec.

Three funeral directors sold hundreds of bodies to a former oral surgeon who allegedly collected the bones, tissue and skin from the corpses to be used in transplants, a grand jury charged Thursday after a 16-month investigation.

FORT WORTH, Texas _ Jim Livingston never gave much thought to the bone transplanted in his neck until that Sunday afternoon when his doctor called to tell him about the recall. "Do they want it back?" he asked, half-jokingly. Quickly it became clear that this was no laughing matter.

FORT WORTH, Texas - A man who found out the bone implanted in his neck to relieve back pain was stolen from a corpse is suing a medical technology company and several tissue processing businesses, including two in Tennessee.