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  2. 'We didn't know she was dead': 11 families learned what ... - AOL

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    The center suspended its body donation program in response to NBC News’ investigation, fired the officials who led it and announced that it would stop using unclaimed bodies. In statements to ...

  3. As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their ...

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    Shupe was alluding to the dark history, long before voluntary body-donation programs, when U.S. medical schools turned to “resurrectionists,” or “body snatchers,” who dug up the graves of ...

  4. 5 things to know about NBC News’ investigation into ... - AOL

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    The use of unclaimed bodies ties back to a dark history, long before voluntary body-donation programs, when U.S. medical schools turned to “resurrectionists,” or “body snatchers,” who dug ...

  5. Body donation - Wikipedia

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    Body donation, anatomical donation, or body bequest is the donation of a whole body after death for research and education. There is usually no cost to donate a body to science; donation programs will often provide a stipend and/or cover the cost of cremation or burial once a donated cadaver has served its purpose and is returned to the family ...

  6. Tissue bank - Wikipedia

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    A Willed Body Donation program is a program that allows people to donate their bodies after death. Most U.S. tissue bank companies get their supply of cadaver tissue through Willed Body Donation programs run by the tissue bank itself. [10]

  7. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The UAGA was drafted in order to increase organ and blood supplies and donation and to protect patients in the United States. [9] It replaced numerous state laws concerning transplantation and laws lacking a uniform procedure of organ donation and an inadequate process of becoming a donor. [9] All states adopted the original version of ...

  8. Texas medical program stops using unclaimed bodies following ...

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    And the Texas Funeral Service Commission, which regulates body donation programs in the state, issued a moratorium on out-of-state body shipments earlier this year while it investigates a range of ...

  9. Organ donation after medical assistance in dying - Wikipedia

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    Organs regularly transplanted include lungs, heart, cornea, pancreas, and kidneys. Modes of donation are an altruistic living donation of a non-vital organ (generally a kidney) and post-mortal organ donation (PMOD). PMOD can be subdivided into donation after brain death (DBD) and donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). [5]