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The Tasmanian government has apologised for a decades-old scandal in which body parts taken from autopsies were secretly kept - and in some cases put on display - without the consent of families.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

In a smaller group of participants who died during the study and underwent autopsies, those with higher enrichment showed stronger memory and thinking abilities and slower cognitive decline before death.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Sri Lankan authorities have begun an inquest into the deaths of the sailors at the southern port city of Galle while the chief magistrate Sameera Dodangoda has ordered autopsies.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Although the agency declared that they mostly died of natural causes, investigations are pending in several cases and many autopsies have not been released.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

Although millions of fever cases were studied and thousands of autopsies performed, not much new was learned about the disease during the entire nineteenth century.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy