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 ...

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 ...

Alexandra Wuopio, a first-year medical student at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, recently spent days of intense study huddled with several classmates and one other person — someone none of ...

The recent article, “For Baltimore medical students, dissection of human body triggers deep emotion” (Jan. 4), took me back to my own time in the anatomy lab of the Madras Medical College in India as ...

Jennifer Addo Kaby (right) and Susan Kelly (left) became friends after Kelly’s father donated his body to a unique gross anatomy course that required students to communicate with the family of the ...

CHICAGO - Fifteen-year-old Donna Youssefnia approached the cadaver with the confidence of a medical student. "I touched the heart, the lungs, the small intestines, and the large intestines," said ...

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 Ballari Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) is facing a significant shortage of dead bodies required for teaching anatomy to medical students. With the number of students increasing each year, ...

PITTSBURGH — The University of Pittsburgh says it will review how it manages donated cadavers following abuse of corpse charges against two students, CBS Pittsburgh reports. According to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of Pittsburgh says it will review how it manages donated cadavers following abuse of corpse charges against two ...