Early 19th-century Edinburgh had a problem: its celebrated medical schools needed more cadavers than the law could shell out. Anatomy students were left to dissect actual human remains, but legal ...

A bag of unidentified body parts. The downfall of the UCLA Willed Body Program, the country’s first program to accept dead bodies for medical research, began when the director of the program, Henry ...

Galen of Pergamon was the most influential ancient Greek physician after Hippocrates and is considered the father of ...

Purdue University’s Tim McGraw explains how position-based dynamics, signed distance fields, and volumetric splats transform cryosection imagery into deformable models that users can cut, tear, and ...

Access to health sciences education in Southwestern Idaho will soon increase with the expansion of the L.S. and Aline W. Skaggs Treasure Valley Anatomy and Physiology Laboratories (TVAPL) on Idaho ...

Each week, leading up to the Hall of Achievement Induction Ceremony on Saturday, October 17, the Monmouth-Roseville Education Foundation will be ...

The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham in July put a spotlight on a condition most people have never heard of, but cardiac ...

An aortic dissection—a tear in the inner layer of the main artery—is a life-threatening emergency. It can happen with little ...

Students at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) - Medical University of Bahrain continue to strengthen their ...

Obviously, it’s a very horrible, tragic accident,” says Trey Reid, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ...

Two thousand years ago in Rome, there was a doctor dedicated to a group of gladiators.Before he took office, 60 gladiators ...

Harvard University on Monday announced it will pay $53 million to settle several lawsuits filed by relatives of people whose body parts were stolen from the medical school’s morgue and sold by its ...