Donna Papsun,Amy Hawes,Amanda L A Mohr et al.
Donna Papsun et al.
Novel illicit opioids, such as furanyl fentanyl and U-47700, are being encountered with increasing frequency in street heroin samples and have been confirmed in a series of overdose deaths in Tennessee. In this paper, we report the patholog...
Nadia Solomon,Jonathan Hayes
Nadia Solomon
Levamisole is an imidazothiazole chemical most frequently used as an antihelminthic agent in cattle. Over the last decade, levamisole has been increasingly encountered as an additive in both powder and crack cocaine. A white powder with a "...
Fatal Entrapment of the Basilar Artery in a Longitudinal Fracture of the Clivus Due to Head Injury: A Case Report and Review of the Literature [0.03%]
颅底斜坡长骨折导致小脑后下动脉致命夹挤1例报告及文献复习
Alfredo Walker,Marlise Peruzzo Dos Santos,Rafael Glikstein et al.
Alfredo Walker et al.
Infarction of the posterior cerebral artery circulation arising from entrapment of the basilar artery in a fracture of the clivus has been reported in the medical literature, predominantly in the radiology and emergency medicine journals. R...
Jeffrey M Jentzen
Jeffrey M Jentzen
Disasters are commonly experienced as major devastating events that exceed the resources of an agency to respond, with effects emanating throughout a community or region. There are, however, those events that are more measured, more subtle,...
South Africa: Vulnerable Persons and Groups in a Vulnerable Democracy - Can Forensic Medical Services Help to Ensure Justice in Critical Times? [0.03%]
南非：脆弱人群与脆弱民主——在关键时刻取证医学服务能确保正义吗？
Gert Saayman
Gert Saayman
The role and contribution of an objective and professional medicolegal death investigation service should be valued and strengthened, especially in countries and communities where institutional and governmental corruption, incompetence, and...
Katherine Gruspier,Michael S Pollanen
Katherine Gruspier
The people of Cambodia were subjected to widespread forced migration and labor, disease, starvation, torture, murder, and indeed, genocide over a period of four years during the control of the country by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in the 1...
Stephen Cordner,Michael S Pollanen,Maria Cristina Mendonca et al.
Stephen Cordner et al.
On May 24, 2010, 800 soldiers and 370 police officers stormed into Tivoli Gardens, an impoverished district in the capital of Jamaica. Their aim was to restore state authority in this part of Kingston and to arrest Christopher "Dudus" Coke,...
Nizam Peerwani
Nizam Peerwani
Wars and armed conflicts by their very nature are cruel and ruthless. In the 17th century, the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius, widely regarded as the father of public international law, wrote in The Rights of War and Peace Book 3, Chapter 1:VI t...
Beverly McEwen
Beverly McEwen
Animals are amongst the most vulnerable of all sentient beings. Animal neglect and abuse may involve a single animal and one person, or hundreds of animals and many people. Animals and people are victims of the same types of fatal injury an...
Michael S Pollanen
Michael S Pollanen
The fatal maltreatment of people that are detained against their will, such as political prisoners and suspected terrorists, can occur in unstable countries. The death of such detainees is often controversial and debated in the media, legal...