In these cases, unclaimed bodies are sometimes sent to and accepted by medical schools, but several experts in the field object to the practice, raising ethical concerns that these people never ...

Employees of a Louisiana coroner's office and a local funeral home owner prepared to bring 107 people to their final resting place.

Two members of Congress have asked about restitution for families who were not notified of the deaths of their loved ones.

The software enables the fingerprints to be captured in a 3D format and represents it in two-dimensional and can be used in ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas county that for years gave unclaimed bodies to a local medical ...

Mobile freezer units were built in the underground parking garage of the Health Sciences Centre to store unclaimed bodies in ...

The management’s deadline, effective from Tuesday, Nov. 5, allows until Nov. 19 for retrieval. Any unclaimed bodies after this period, she stated, will be cleared and disposed of to safeguard public ...

The use of unclaimed bodies in medical schools was legalized in the 1800s as an attempt to stop grave robbing, where ...