If you’re looking to help advance medical research, and in the process, eliminate your funeral and burial costs, donating your body to science is a great option to consider. Here’s what you should ...

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A Belgian study reveals why donors choose science over tradition and how family conversations can turn loss into a lasting contribution to medical education and public health. Study: Beyond the gift: ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary "Body Brokers" in the video player above. Every year, an estimated 20,000 people donate their bodies to science for the purpose of medical research and education. But ...

Dear Savvy Senior: I am interested in possibly donating my body to science when I pass away. What can you tell me about this, and what would I need to do to set it up? — Getting Old Dear Getting: If ...

The process of organ donation and transplanting those organs in place of diseased or dysfunctional ones is frustrating, lengthy, complicated and expensive. Just ask Courtney Kaplan, who oversaw her ...

A faculty colleague at another institution contacted me to let me know that his mother had donated her body to our body donation program. I replied that we would take care of her and treat her with ...

How much you'll make for donating plasma will vary, depending on what part of the country you’re in and which plasma center ...