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These Georgetown University medical students used donated cadavers in their anatomy class in 2011. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesIn 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 medical students, this semiretired actress had filled out forms to donate her corpse to the medical college upon her death. As histo...

Long ago medical students had to rely on cadavers provided to them by grave robbers, but now some people are freely donating their bodies for the good of medical education and research.

For decades, medical schools faced a shortage of cadavers, prompting some students to rob graves so they had corpses to dissect. Many states later made the bodies of the unclaimed poor available for science, but the shortage finally broke for good in the late-1950s, when body donations became more popular.

HOPE/TEXARKANA, Ark. -- The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana recently purchased anatomy technology that instructors say will enhance health professions and science instruction for years to come.

Dallas, Texas, June 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At Parker Seminars Orlando 2021, Parker University proudly announced its continued partnership with Touch ...

Dallas, Texas, June 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At Parker Seminars Orlando 2021, Parker University proudly announced its continued partnership with...