UNT Health Science Center suspends program that used unclaimed bodies, closes lab

A Fort Worth medical school has suspended its program that used unclaimed bodies for medical research and sold some of the corpses to companies across the nation. The University of North Texas Health Science Center announced the suspension late last week after an investigation from NBC News detailed how more than 2,300 bodies from Dallas and Tarrant counties had been used since 2019. The news network’s investigation found repeated failures by death investigators to contact family members before declaring a body unclaimed. The network also identified 12 cases in which...