I recently learned that NASA has made some limited use of human cadavers in testing during the development of the Orion spacecraft. Now, on first blush, this might sound somewhat macabre. In fact, it ...

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Students in anatomy classes at Augustana University have been working with human cadavers this semester, with a twist: There's no formaldehyde smell or even a real dead body physically in the ...

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A body, bearing racist tattoos, is donated to a medical school for dissection. One shoulder bears a swastika. On the other is written "KKK." Should the body be presented to the students for anatomical ...

It started with a dismembered arm waving out the window of New York Hospital. At least, that’s how the story goes: When a young boy saw a New York Hospital medical student waving the arm at him, ...

NEW YORK -- After "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke died at age 95, errors in the medical records accompanying his body fell through the cracks, one by one. His name was misspelled. His birth ...

Last month the motor truck in which 739-lb. “Happy Jack” Eckert lived, traveled and displayed himself as a freak of nature collided with a freight truck at Flomaton, Ala. Ten men succeeded in carrying ...

PRESS A KNIFE into human flesh and, as the blade slides in, the sensation subtly changes. Human skin, says Claire Smith, professor of anatomy at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, “feels like chicken ...

Students in anatomy classes at Augustana University have been working with human cadavers this semester, with a twist: There's no formaldehyde smell or even a real dead body physically in the ...