They specialize in determining the causes of sudden, unexpected or violent deaths. But according to the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. is facing a critical shortage of these professionals.

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 ...

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This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study will examine the handing of deaths in custody by the medicolegal death investigation system in the United States. It will consider ...

PROVIDENCE – After eight years of trying, and a messy series of controversies, Rhode Island has a new chief medical examiner to oversee the state office responsible for investigating sudden, violent, ...

Coroners in Northern California are farming out thousands of cases each year to a private company whose doctors have dissected the wrong body and have given inaccurate testimony that helped send an ...

The Board of Supervisors today approved a $1.3 million contract to retain an independent forensic pathologist over a five-year period to render autopsy services at the busy sheriff's coroner's bureau.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - The Arkansas State Crime Laboratory (ASCL) is pleased to announce that Dr. Lance Van Truong, D.O., has been matched as ASCL’s first forensic pathology ...

Forensic pathologists in West Virginia are being asked to perform at least twice as many autopsies as the national best practice standard, resulting in significant delays, the state office of the ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study ...