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 ...

For allied health professions, nursing, public health and other health education programs that accept students as undergraduates, the basic life sciences of biology and chemistry form part of the ...

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has required its first-year med students to do an anatomy lab since 1911. To do so, the school relies on living donors who give their bodies to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The life-sized drawing of the cadaver is titled "Table 8." About six feet long, it shows the human body in a state of partial dissection, with flaps of leathery skin peeled back to ...

NEW YORK — The first things my eyes land on are the leg bones. Thin, sinewy strips of muscle and skin cling delicately to the femurs, tibias and fibulas. The feet have more flesh on them. And toenails ...

AMES, Iowa – A new anatomy laboratory at Iowa State University is nearing the end of its first year offering students an opportunity to study human cadavers donated for teaching purposes. The anatomy ...

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With its butter-colored walls and multiple windows, the room itself is too medicinal, too sterilized and too well-lit to be spooky. But it's not the room, rather it's what is in the room that matters.

This is my last week hosting this program. I'm going to take some time off and come back as a roving correspondent doing long-form reporting and profiles of fascinating people. This week, I'm going to ...

Cole Stinebiser encountered at least one dead body — a deceased woman found in a home — during his brief career as a municipal police officer in Pennsylvania. As a graduate student in Seton Hill ...

"I am incredibly grateful for the unique opportunity provided by DUCOM in the Anatomy lab to work with donor bodies. This experience has greatly deepened my understanding and appreciation of anatomy.