SEATTLE - For years, an agreement between Dallas and Tarrant counties provided the University of North Texas Health Science Center with hundreds of unclaimed bodies that were used by the center for dissection and study. But after months of investigations in the center's malpractices, the program was shut down on Sept. 13.
According to NBC News, the bodies were routinely collected from hospital beds, nursing homes and homeless encampments and used for training or research without their consent and often without the approval of any survivors. But amid the increasing scrutiny over its malpractices, the center announced in a statement that it was immediately suspending its body donation program and firing some of the officials who led it.
