This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” an NBC News series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Last year, Karen Wandel received an alarming message: Her father had died ...

A Texas lawmaker horrified by an NBC News investigation into a medical school that profited from the bodies of the poor and vulnerable moved this week to ban the practice, introducing a bill that ...

For five years, the unclaimed dead of Dallas and Tarrant counties were delivered to the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. There, the bodies were assessed based on their ...

He explained that the exercise was to create space for fresh corpses being brought to the mortuary daily and to avoid pollution of the environment and the health facilities of the hospital. Dr Dennis ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. In August, a single email triggered a chain of hand-wringing and strategizing ...

Supplying unclaimed bodies for medical research is widely considered unethical, and most major medical schools — and a few states — have halted the practice. And yet it continues, in part due to the ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. For five years, the unclaimed dead of Dallas and Tarrant counties were delivered to ...