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Provinces owe billions to struggling National Health Laboratory Service
The National Health Laboratory Service is owed R8.9bn in unpaid accounts by various provinces – while also battling staff shortages and huge backlogs in...
Failing SA mortuaries ‘smell like 10 dead cows'
Inadequate infrastructure and maintenance at government mortuaries, many of which have failed to meet inspection standards, highlight the grim conditions under which staff conduct...
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...