A yearlong NBC News investigation uncovered a "flourishing business" being run by a Texas medical school, providing "unclaimed" bodies to medical researchers.

Intramuscular fat, contained within muscle tissue, increases the risk of serious heart disease, regardless of other risk factors, a new study suggests.

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People with hidden pockets of fat in their muscles – similar to so-called marbling in beef – are at a higher risk of dying from heart attacks or heart failure regardless of their body weight, ...

After the novelist’s husband died, she did a good approximation of being OK. She was not OK. Three years later, she returned to Australia to confront her grief.

The president of a Texas hospital resigned just months after an investigation uncovered that the facility chopped up ...

The Polk County District Attorney’s Office has announced that Don Steven McDougal, who was charged in the kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, has pleaded guilty and will serve life ...

"We had Border Patrol, I bet they had over 100 cars just from them," said Mike Kamerling, a Vermont State Police sergeant. "And then you had state police from both Vermont and New York and virtually ...

The FBI has revealed little information about Monday’s fatal shooting of Agent David “Chris” Maland during a traffic stop. A German national who was in the U.S. on a current visa was also killed in ...

Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams resigned as president of the UNT Health Science Center after the hospital used unclaimed bodies for ...