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.

Across the United States, the shortage of forensic pathologists has reached a critical level. According to the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME), only about 850 forensic pathologists ...

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 ...

Death investigation in Maui County, Hawaii is managed by the police, and the chief of police is the coroner. In 2015, I interviewed for a job there: an open position for a forensic pathologist to ...

Dr. Cyril Wecht, a former Allegheny County medical examiner and renowned forensic pathologist known for his work on cases such as the JFK assassination and JonBenet Ramsey, died Monday. He was 93. The ...

Dr. Werner Spitz spent a lifetime chasing death — and, this week, finally caught up to it. By any measure, Spitz had lived a long time — 97 years — and no doubt will be remembered most as one of the ...