Saint Louis University's 40-hour Medicolegal Death Investigators Training Course provides individuals with information on conducting scientific, systematic and thorough death scene and telephone ...

With a lack of regulation for coroners, a child who dies unexpectedly or outside of a doctor’s care in Idaho is less likely ...

Automatism or automatic behaviour was originally described in the Hippocratic corpus in relation to sleepwalking and other nocturnal behaviours. 1 Despite its long history, this area of automatism ...

Obstetrics and gynaecology is the biggest area of medical litigation, with compensation pay-outs exceeding the rest of medicine combined. Many specialists working in the field will be sued over their ...

The symposium has reaffirmed the activities of the ICRC’s ACMS as a platform and a convenor for medicolegal issues in Africa. The ACMS supports ICRC’s work in relation to missing persons in Southern ...

He wrote in to clear up some misconceptions about what a medicolegal death investigator is and does -- something, he says, the overall reporting project either muddled with other professionals in ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine intends to conduct a study on the handling of deaths in custody (detained, arrested, en route to incarceration, or ...

What was once fair under the law may become unfair when science changes. The law must react to uphold due process ...

If Gov. Maura Healey’s nominations are confirmed, Sarah Kim, Ira Gant and Adam Hornstine will join the ranks of the 82 ...

This conference is designed to provide the veteran, trained medicolegal death investigator with the latest advancements in the forensic sciences. Attendees are expected to be knowledgeable of basic ...

Chief John Pelletier refused to answer our questions. Then, six days after the story aired, MPD took to Facebook to announce ...

The country intends to increase its pool of forensics experts and medicolegal investigators by bringing in experts from ...