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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Werner Spitz spent a lifetime chasing death — and, this week, finally caught up to it. By any measure, Spitz had lived a long time — 97 years — and no doubt will be remembered most as one of the ...

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 ...

A new study in the Journal of Forensic Sciences suggests the role medical examiners play in the criminal justice system is far more subjective than commonly thought. It also suggests their analysis ...

I was just in Kansas City among hundreds of fellow physicians and associated forensic professionals at the annual conference of the National Association of Medical Examiners. In between NAME social ...

A fellowship announced last week will offer one physician a year's worth of experience working with forensic pathologists at the Arkansas state Crime Laboratory and coroners across the state, ...