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 ...

Forensic pathologists play a unique role in monitoring and responding to public health threats and advancing our understanding of human disease and injury, according to a new review article published ...

Determining the cause of death is one of the most crucial and challenging parts of a forensic investigation. Knowing the medical history of the decedent can make this task significantly easier and ...

Dr. Nathaniel Patterson didn't expect the scrutiny from the news media that greeted him as Sangamon County's new forensic pathologist in mid-March. But when it comes to his work ethic, competence and ...

Critics say the profession of forensic pathology has been slow to acknowledge how big a role bias may play in decisions such as whether to classify a death in police custody as a homicide. By Shaila ...

Most scientists and doctors in the coronavirus crisis are working to save the living. Those in the field of forensic pathology, however, focus on the dead. Ahmad Samarji, a Lebanon-based scholar of ...

World-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz, who made his name in Detroit and sat on the first of two government committees to review President John F. Kennedy's assassination, died Sunday at ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Calcasieu Parish is searching for a new forensic pathologist. That’s someone who specializes in determining the cause and manner of death. An ad for the position is running ...

ROCKFORD — Willard Purcell was fighting with his wife, Barbara, at the top of a flight of stairs when she slipped and fell backward, head first, down the stairs. That was Willard Purcell’s account of ...

CNN’s Isa Soares spoke to a Venezuelan forensic pathologist, who told her the situation at the morgue she has been working in ...

Roger Byard – whose colleagues refer to him as ‘Doctor Death’ – has investigated some of the most traumatic deaths in Australia. He’s also investigated some of the strangest. The forensic pathologist ...