Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigative reporter for NBC News, based in Maryland, and author of 'They Came for the Schools.'
A 10-month NBC News investigation laid out in stark detail how two of the country’s most populous counties sent unclaimed bodies to a Texas medical school, which used them for medical training and research — often without the consent of the deceased or their relatives’ knowledge. Many of the bodies were cut up and shipped across the country to for-profit medical device makers, other universities and the Army.
5 million a year from outside groups, according to Health Science Center financial records. 3. Recipients that paid the Health Science Center for bodies didn’t know they were unclaimed Ten companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools that relied on the Health Science Center for human specimens told NBC News they didn’t know the center had given them unclaimed bodies. Some, including the U.S. Army, promised to review internal policies in response.
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