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 ...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- Who takes care of the unclaimed dead, the people who were homeless or estranged from family members, or who outlived all their kin, and left no assets behind? The answer is ...

Agreements in 2021 and 2023 called for USC to provide 12 “fresh tissue cadaver bodies” per year for the U.S. Navy to use in ...

LAKE COUNTY, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) – Four people were found dead in Tennessee on Tuesday night, and investigators say they believe the deaths are connected to an abandoned infant case from earlier in ...

With no family or friends to organize, a call-out was posted looking for volunteer pallbearers to help at the burial of an ...

Nairobi City County is preparing to dispose 295 unclaimed bodies lying at the Nairobi Funeral Home, formerly City Mortuary. The move, begs the question of how do people who were once known by family, ...

Mexican authorities said on Monday they found the bodies of 12 men and women left in two abandoned vans in a rural area in the central state of San Luis Potosi, an area brimming with drug cartel ...

Bill would prohibit importation of "plastinated" human body parts into the U.S. May 21, 2008— -- Click here to read an update on this story. Twenty-one members of Congress have sponsored a bill ...

The posts began, "In a case that haunted both families and baffled authorities for nearly a decade, the remains of two ...