This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Two members of Congress are pressing officials for answers after NBC News ...

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 ...

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

Johnson donates the cremation services, so the coroner’s office doesn’t incur the cost. The coroner’s office used to bury the unclaimed bodies, but it became too costly.

According to Dr Okello, annually, the city council buries over 80 unclaimed bodies and spends quarterly 4.4 million shillings ...

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