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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These Georgetown University medical students used donated cadavers in their anatomy class in 2011. Bill O'Leary/The Washington ...

Kyle Gospodarek expected to feel nervous about seeing a dead body up close on his first day of anatomy lab. He steeled himself for the smell — a pungent blend of latex, embalming fluid and something ...

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The six medical schools in Virginia are exploring a partnership with Perspectus Technology, a virtual reality firm that hopes to bring its software to institutions across the country to transform ...

New technologies have emerged for teaching anatomy to medical students, from full-size replica human models to virtual reality programs. But training with cadavers -- called donor dissection -- ...

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 ...

A group of people have been arrested and face federal charges in a scheme in which federal prosecutors accuse them of buying and selling human body parts stolen from Harvard Medical School's morgue ...

In the midst of the greatest human slaughter in history, there is a serious shortage of corpses: the bodies of battle victims are not available to medical schools. This wartime shortage is a serious ...

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 ...

In 1956, Alma Merrick Helms announced that she was bound for Stanford University. But she would not be attending classes. Upon learning that there was a "special shortage of women's bodies" for ...