These Georgetown University medical students used donated cadavers in their anatomy class in 2011. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images In 1956, Alma Merrick Helms announced that she was ...

The recent article, “For Baltimore medical students, dissection of human body triggers deep emotion” (Jan. 4), took me back to my own time in the anatomy lab of the Madras Medical College in India as ...

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, ...

Jennifer Addo Kaby (right) and Susan Kelly (left) became friends after Kelly’s father donated his body to a unique gross anatomy course that required students to communicate with the family of the ...

The Ballari Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) is facing a significant shortage of dead bodies required for teaching anatomy to medical students. With the number of students increasing each year, ...

Every year, first-year medical students approach their human cadavers with a mixture of awe and trepidation. They will come to know their assigned cadaver intimately. During the course of their ...

Technology may be making the use of cadavers obsolete in medical education. Some virtual and synthetic mannequins are so lifelike, they can cry out in pain, drip fake blood, and emit sound waves just ...

PITTSBURGH — The University of Pittsburgh says it will review how it manages donated cadavers following abuse of corpse charges against two students, CBS Pittsburgh reports. According to the ...

Two University of Pittsburgh students have been charged with abuse of a corpse after classmates allegedly saw them inappropriately touching cadavers during an anatomy lab class. Amay Gupta and Sonel ...