Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In the 19th century, medical schools were desperate for corpses from which their students could learn. Grave robbers would sell bodies; sometimes, ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences has stopped accepting donated bodies because it can’t identify as many as 50 cadavers, according to The ...

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, ...

MERRILLVILLE | A full-scale Indiana University Northwest medical imaging effort involving human anatomical donors continues today at the Methodist Hospitals Southlake Campus. The process began Friday ...

I recently left my home in New York to move across the country and start med school at Stanford. My weeks are busy, filled with long lectures and social engagements. Although medical school is ...

Science has significantly benefited from human body donation because it helps provide a clearer picture of what is happening below the surface. To decide to donate one’s organs or body after death is ...

ZTCC Pune coordinated 79 deceased organ donations and benefitted 207 patients in 2025, emerging as Maharashtra’s leading city ...