The former manager of a morgue at Harvard Medical School has been charged with stealing and selling body parts from donated cadavers as part of a nationwide scheme between 2018 and 2022, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Florida, Massachusetts, and Oregon.

• Florida: U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died in May due to childbirth complications, according to a recent report from a medical examiner in Orlando. Bowie, who was 32 years old, was around eight months pregnant and in labor when she suffered possible complications including "respiratory distress and eclampsia," the latter of which is a rare, severe complication of preeclampsia, a high blood pressure condition affecting pregnant women. Bowie's baby did not survive. (Henderson, MedPage Today, 6/14; Suliman, Washington Post, 6/14)
• Massachusetts: The former manager of a morgue at Harvard Medical School has been charged with stealing and selling body parts from donated cadavers as part of a nationwide scheme between 2018 and 2022. The former manager, Cedric Lodge, and his wife, Denise Lodge, were indicted alongside several others by a federal jury in Pennsylvania, facing charges of conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods. According to prosecutors, the defendants in the case were part of a nationwide network of people buying and selling human remains stolen from both Harvard Medical School and a mortuary in Little Rock, Arkansas. In a statement, George Daley, dean of the faculty of medicine, and Edward Hundert, dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School, said the alleged incidents were an "abhorrent betrayal" and "morally reprehensible." (Falconer, Axios, 6/14; Levenson, New York Times, 6/14)
• Oregon: Willamette Valley Fruit Company announced a recall of select packages of frozen fruit containing strawberries grown in Mexico "due to the potential for Hepatitis A contamination." Included in the recall are Radar Farms organic products sold at Costco and HEB stores, as well as three Walmart Great Value fruit products sold in 32 states. (Tyko, Axios, 6/14)