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 ...

After her 29 year old son dropped dead, Jeanann Ward refused to have him autopsied. She couldn't bear the thought. Four years later, that decision haunts her. Whatever struck down the seemingly ...

The room in which I learned the most this past summer might surprise you. It was not a room in a library, an office, or a classroom filled with books and papers. Rather, it was in a room in a hospital ...

Maybe you were one of the 11.7 million people who watched when, on House M.D., the genius diagnostician Gregory House is roused in the middle of the night by a pounding at the door. A man he just gave ...

Not counting patients who died of external causes, hospitals autopsied an average of just 3.9 percent of patients in 2014. Amid National Decline In Autopsies, Doctors Reaffirm The Procedure's ...

PORTAGE | Students in Tami Kepshire's anatomy and physiology II class at Portage High School didn't squirm or look away Thursday as they watched a forensic autopsy. Some even munched on donuts. It was ...