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George Washington U. Stops Accepting Donated Cadavers After Losing Track of Body Identities

George Washington University’s medical school has lost track of the identities of some of the cadavers donated to the institution for research and teaching, and so has ceased accepting donations through its willed-body program.

In a statement issued on Friday, Jeffrey S. Akman, the medical school’s dean and the university’s vice president for health affairs, wrote that “despite exhaustive efforts, we have been unable to make a positive identification of certain donor bodies and as a result are unable to return ashes to some families who have requested them.”

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