Tag: unclaimed
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‘Shocked’ members of Congress from Texas seek answers on unclaimed bodies used for research
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Two members of Congress are pressing officials for answers after NBC News exposed failures to notify relatives of dead people whose bodies were used for medical research. The politicians also asked about compensation for those families.…
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Texas county adopts policy to ensure unclaimed bodies are treated with dignity
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas county that for years gave unclaimed bodies to a local medical school without families’ consent will now cremate or bury those people instead — but only after officials document that they have done all…
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Thousands of unclaimed bodies sent to Texas medical school — 1,800 names released
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. For five years, the unclaimed dead of Dallas and Tarrant counties were delivered to the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. There, the bodies were assessed based on their usefulness to medical…
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Texas lawmaker vows to ban medical research on unclaimed bodies after NBC News investigation
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas state legislator is vowing to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for research in response to an NBC News investigation that found a local medical program obtained and studied hundreds of human specimens without…
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Texas medical program stops using unclaimed bodies following NBC News investigation
The Health Science Center also terminated its agreement with Dallas County, according to county Administrator Darryl Martin. He said the county had been planning to let the contract expire on Sept. 30 in light of NBC News’ findings. County officials had justified providing these bodies to the center because they had been marked as unclaimed…