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Leading forensic expert probes mysteries of SA’s dead

Professor Lorna Martin – South Africa’s first woman to head a forensic medicine department – not only spends her working life in mortuaries, she...

More accurate way to assess age of recovered remains

Forensic researchers at North Carolina State University have found a more accurate way to assess an individual's age at death, based on the bone...

UK study could be a breakthrough in autopsy practice

For most sudden natural adult deaths investigated by British coroners, postmortem computing tomography, enhanced with targeted coronary angiography (PMCTA) could be used to avoid...