Death investigation in Maui County, Hawaii is managed by the police, and the chief of police is the coroner. In 2015, I interviewed for a job there: an open position for a forensic pathologist to ...

As he moves through museums, churches, shrines and display cases, forensic pathologist and archaeologist Philippe Charlier cannot help cataloguing the great figures of history before him: “He is my ...

"While that is part of our role, the scope of forensic pathology goes far beyond autopsy examinations," Dr. Folkerth continued. "In addition to performing the final diagnostic evaluation of a person ...

The United States is experiencing a shortage of medical examiners. Like everything else, this ongoing problem has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, the opioid ...

For many people, forensic pathology seems forbidding and dark. It deals intimately with death, crime, and disaster and is most often represented through the artifice of television shows and movies.

Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker, a noted forensic pathologist whose belief in the preservation of evidence from rape victims coupled with DNA matching proved either innocence or guilt, and who was the ...

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Forensic pathologists, or medical examiners, are specially trained physicians who examine the bodies of people who died suddenly, unexpectedly, or violently. A forensic pathology practitioner will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Werner Spitz spent a lifetime chasing death — and, this week, finally caught up to it. By any measure, Spitz had lived a long ...