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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of North Texas Health Science Center used some of the bodies to teach medical students. Others were parceled out to ...

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 ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” an NBC News series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. The revelation that a Texas medical school was routinely dissecting the ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Appalled Texas lawmakers called for a crackdown on the corpse trade Wednesday after ...