Body donations on the rise at US medical schools

An Associated Press article about the surge in the number of people who are leaving their bodies to medical schools for research and training purposes reports UB received almost 600 bodies last year, a doubling over the past decade, and quotes John Tomaszewski, chief of the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. “The uses that we can bring to these very precious gifts have really escalated,” he said. The story appeared in news outlets around the nation, including ABC News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, Yahoo News and Fox News.

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http://bigstory.ap.org/f99bacafa4a04086bbe99de029aa710f

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/body-donations-rise-us-medical-schools-41453501

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/17/us/ap-us-medical-schools-body-donations.html?_r=1&mtrref=query.nytimes.com  

http://www.wsj.com/articles/APf99bacafa4a04086bbe99de029aa710f

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-body-donations-medical-schools-20160817-story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/body-donations-on-the-rise-at-us-medical-schools/2016/08/17/9935dfd0-6484-11e6-b4d8-33e931b5a26d_story.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/body-donations-rise-us-medical-schools-140933493.html?ref=gs

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/08/17/body-donations-on-rise-at-us-medical-schools.html