Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Werner Spitz spent a lifetime chasing death — and, this week, finally caught up to it. By any measure, Spitz had lived a long ...

Yes, the great "cause of death” pathologist, Werner Spitz, has left the building, a loss to all. His brilliance and genius were always on display, but so was his prodigious humanity. Testifying in a ...

For many people, forensic pathology seems forbidding and dark. It deals intimately with death, crime, and disaster and is most often represented through the artifice of television shows and movies.

The death of Dr. Werner Spitz, 97, of Grosse Pointe Shores on April 14, has many of us who were fortunate enough to cross his path, recalling what a fascinating experience that was. I met Dr. Spitz a ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Nationally known forensic pathologist and former Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht has died at the age of 93, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts said. He was ...

As the second half of Accident, Suicide, or Murder’s Season 5 draws closer, Oxygen.com sat with an expert to learn what helps postmortem examiners determine a manner of death. Accident, Suicide, or ...

Dr Yaseen Bismilla, one of South Africa's few specialist forensic pathologists, has transformed from a child who feared death ...

World-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz, who made his name in Detroit and sat on the first of two government committees to review President John F. Kennedy's assassination, died Sunday at ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - The Arkansas State Crime Laboratory (ASCL) is pleased to announce that Dr. Lance Van Truong, D.O., has been matched as ASCL’s first forensic pathology ...

Autopsy is the first step to solving a case. It is for the deceased, but it is also to protect the living. If we do not accurately determine the cause of death, the same thing will happen again. On ...

Forensic pathologists play a unique role in monitoring and responding to public health threats and advancing our understanding of human disease and injury, according to a new review article published ...