NBC News - The University of North Texas Health Science Center will stop accepting unclaimed bodies following an NBC News investigation that documented how the Fort Worth program cut up and leased out the remains of poor people for training and research without consent from the dead or their families. The center’s president, Sylvia Trent-Adams, announced the decision in an email to students, faculty and staff.
NBC News reporters found the center had received about 2,350 unclaimed bodies from Tarrant and Dallas counties in the past five years. More than 830 of them were selected for use, including to educate medical students or to be leased out to companies that rely on bodies to develop products and teach doctors how to work with them.
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