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Medical students honor body donors through words, deeds and ceremonies

Six people were charged on June 14, 2023, with buying and selling human remains stolen from the Harvard Medical School morgue and from an Arkansas mortuary. The macabre story made national headlines, particularly the indictment of Cedric Lodge: a morgue manager at Harvard from 1995 until earlier this year.

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Medics warn Rishi Sunak his NHS reforms will fail if he steps in over pay

The Government is expected to announce a doubling of medical school places for doctors, with a pledge to train tens of thousands of new nurses and midwives, more trainee GPs and dentists

Daily Mirror

A Former Medical School Morgue Manager Has Been Charged With Stealing And Selling Body Parts

Cedric Lodge allegedly allowed buyers to visit the morgue and decide which remains they wanted to buy, a federal prosecutor said.

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Theft of heads, brains, skin and other body parts from Harvard morgue spurs lawsuit

The son of a woman whose body was donated to Harvard Medical School for research purposes has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all families who believe their loved ones’ body parts were mishandled by the school’s former morgue manager

The Independent UK

Morgue manager at Harvard Medical School sold stolen body parts, prosecutors say

Brains, skin and more were taken from dissected portions of donated cadavers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Four indicted over ‘appalling’ theft of body parts from Harvard Medical School

Morgue manager Cedric Lodge and his wife Denise allegedly took ‘heads, brains, skin, bones and other human remains’

The Guardian - US

‘Heads, brains, skin and bones’: Everything we know about the Harvard Medical School body parts seller

Reverred institution’s veteran morgue manager Cecil Lodge accused of stealing human remains and selling them online to black market collectors

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Abortion care training is banned in some states. A new bill could help OB-GYNs get it

Medical schools in states that have banned abortion can't teach abortion care. Sen. Tammy Baldwin wants to make funds available for students in those states to travel for the training.

WEKU

Harvard morgue manager accused of selling stolen body parts charged with human trafficking - latest updates

Cedric Lodge allegedly stole ‘heads, brains, skin and bones’ from cadavers donated to school

The Independent UK

Harvard morgue manager ‘sold body parts and human skin that was made into leather’

Paypal memo of one transaction read ‘head number 7’ as medical school deans call accusations ‘an abhorrent betrayal’

The Independent UK

Harvard Medical School morgue manager accused of stealing and selling donated body parts

Cedric Lodge was indicted with several others over what prosecutors said was a nationwide scheme.

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Harvard Medical School morgue manager, 4 others indicted in theft, sale of human remains

A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in the theft and sale of human body parts

The Independent UK

Former manager of Harvard morgue charged with trafficking human remains

BOSTON — A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue has been charged with alleged trafficking of human remains.

Boston Herald

Morgue bosses 'stole and sold human BODY PARTS' in horror Harvard Medical School scheme

Harvard Medical School's morgue bossCedric Lodge is accused of letting people pick which human body parts they wanted to buy before stealing brains, skin and bones from donated cadavers to ship to them in the mail from his home

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Dobbs decision now a factor in med school residency picks - Roll Call

Data shows abortion ruling may play a role in medical school residency decisions, could drive some away from becoming OB-GYNs.

Daily Mirror

Student's dreams 'ruined' by long Covid that forced him to drop out of medical school

Dylan Kelly, 25, has been left with a chronic lack of energy, nerve pain, and migraines after initially catching the virus in February 2020 and later being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome

Wales Online

Student gives up dream of becoming a doctor after contracting Long Covid

Dylan had been offered a place at medical school before he fell ill

The Conversation

New Zealand's reliance on foreign doctors to plug gaps highlights the need for another medical school

The New Zealand health system is currently in the throes of its biggest reorganisation in more than 20 years. The aim is to provide more efficiency and equity.

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The Earth's Corr: Electrifying your bike will change your life

Recent research by Germany’s Hannover Medical School found riding an e-bike regularly can cut the risk of a heart attack by 40%

The Independent UK

Federal government's $1 billion effort to recruit next generation of doctors at risk

Thousands of doctors and nurses signed on to work in the country’s most desperate regions during the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for forgiveness of medical school debt

Daily Mirror

Stolen body parts donated to medical science allegedly sold to man thief met on Facebook

Candace Chapman Scott of Little Rock, Arkansas, allegedly sold Pennsylvania man Jeremy Lee Pauley 20 boxes of body parts stolen from a mortuary after being used as medical school cadavers

Chicago Sun-Times

Opioid crisis can’t be tackled without better pain management training for doctors

Many primary care practitioners are not adequately trained in pain management since learning about it is not required in medical school or during residency, a physician writes.

The Conversation

Medical students lose their empathy – here's what can be done about it

A lack of empathy in healthcare can be disastrous. In the UK, between 2005 and 2009, hundreds of avoidable deaths occurred at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The Francis report, which investigated the causes of the failings, concluded that a lack of empathy contributed to the catastrophe.

WEKU

Diversity in medicine can save lives. Here's why there aren't more doctors of color

The U.S. desperately needs more Black and Hispanic doctors, research shows. But financial pressures and discrimination can keep young people from even applying to med school.

The Conversation

'May cause serious side-effects': How medical school admissions can perpetuate inequality and reward privilege

Would-be physicians are often told that a winning medical school application requires stories about observing clinical care. Applicants’ quests to get clinical experiences — through, for example, physician shadowing, global health experiences or medical scribe work — can have harmful unintended consequences.

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