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 ...

The use of donated cadavers, a dead human body used for medical study or purposes, has become the newest inclusion in many ...

Students at Penn State College of Medicine on Monday will hold their annual ceremony to honor the people who allowed them to dissect their bodies. The Derry Township-based medical school receives ...

Many U.S. medical schools are seeing a surge in the number of people leaving their bodies to science, a trend attributed to rising funeral costs and growing acceptance of a practice long seen by some ...

Imagine the brain, its various pieces highlighted like a Technicolor yarn ball. Now imagine you can pluck out the pieces, the frontal lobe, the cerebellum, the thalamus. From the middle you grab the ...

DENVER -- Jonathan Dameworth haunts his professor's office three times a week, trying to wheedle his way into a human dissection class scheduled for the fall at Colorado State University. If he can't ...

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 ...

New York University medical students are moving beyond the traditional cadaver of anatomy class to dissect a virtual model made by BioDigital Systems, reports the New York Times. It’s pretty cool, but ...

(CBS)-- First-year medical students at Northwestern paid tribute Wednesday afternoon to some of their most important learning tools: the cadavers in their anatomy labs. "Our cadaver's name is Gary. He ...

It is expected that cadavers used for anatomy practice in medical schools will be shared among schools. Until now, cadavers could only be used by the institution that received the donation. On 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 ...

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 ...