Physicians and nurses need to understand the process and procedures of an autopsy to be able to answer patients' and family members' questions. A family confronted with a difficult decision, such as ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these ...