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A man walking his dog in the Bronx found a woman’s severed shoulder and two hands in a plastic bag, and the rest of the body turned out to be scattered in suitcases and another bag elsewhere in the neighborhood, authorities said.

For the first time doctors have successfully transplanted a vein grown with a patient's own stem cells, another example of scientists producing human body parts in the lab. In this case, the patient was a 10-year-old girl in Sweden who was suffering from a severe vein blockage to her liver. Last March, the girl's doctors decided to make her a new blood vessel to bypass the blocked vein instead of using one of her own or considering a liver transplant.

Police investigating the grisly killing of a Chinese student said mailed packages containing the man's body parts also included notes.

Packages containing a human foot and hand were discovered at two schools in Vancouver on Tuesday, in what could be the latest gruesome twist in the case of a Canadian porn actor suspected of dismembering and eating his former lover....

A Canadian porn actor suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student and mailing his body parts to Canada's top political parties was reading about himself on the Internet when he was arrested Monday at a cafe in Berlin.

The man whose head, hands and feet were found this week along a hiking trail near the Hollywood sign used to hike in Griffith Park.

An investigation unfolding near the iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles is playing out like a gory movie script, as police worked to identity a man whose body was found in parts over the past two days - first a head on Tuesday, then two hands and two feet on Wednesday....

Prosecutors filed a murder charge Tuesday against a woman found pushing a trash bin that contained human body parts, and detectives are examining whether the remains are those of the woman's ex-boyfriend, who recently disappeared.

California authorities say a San Bernardino woman was arrested for investigation of murder after she was seen pushing a trash can with body parts inside.

Emergency room physicians say people often don't know what to do with a body part that's become derailed, whether it's a toe, finger, tooth or an eye that's popped out of its socket.