autopsy

The coroner's office in Greenville, South Carolina said crews treated a woman in "cardiac arrest" and her autopsy showed "no signs of trauma".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

After researchers accounted for factors including age, education, genetics, race and hypertension, hormone therapy use was associated with 35% lower odds of showing signs of Alzheimer's disease at autopsy.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Her autopsy listed obesity, diabetes, and elevated environmental temperature as possible contributors.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

A diagnosis of CTE requires evidence of degeneration of brain tissue that can only be seen during an autopsy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

This is a rapid sampling of tissue, done close to the moment of death instead of a full autopsy.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

In the other, 2,959 participants underwent autopsies after death, at an average age of 82, so researchers could look for evidence of Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Texas Newsroom obtained autopsies for prisoners named in the litigation, and three of those reports named heat as a contributing factor in the deaths.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

Advocates and industry officials alike say the CSB, though understaffed and lacking enforcement power, has been a crucial watchdog doing autopsies of catastrophes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The Tasmanian government has apologised for a decades-old scandal in which body parts taken from autopsies were secretly kept - and in some cases put on display - without the consent of families.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Broca is still unable to study a living brain, but he has been performing autopsies on the brains of stroke victims.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Identified tentatively as John or Jane Does, the bodies will be transported to the medical examiner’s offices near downtown Los Angeles to be autopsied, Ukpo said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

In 2012, the team said it received “problematic” documents from coroners detailing how one infant wasn’t autopsied until after its body was embalmed and how another’s death certificate didn’t match what the autopsy found.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024

A judge granted Bul Mabil’s emergency request to ensure that an independent medical examiner autopsied Mabil’s body before releasing the remains to Bowley and her family.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

Since July 2021, Dr Fortun has autopsied the remains of more than 90 victims, and discovered multiple inconsistencies.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024

Griffith autopsied the mice and found that the rough bacteria had changed: they had acquired the smooth coat—the virulence-determining factor—merely by contact with the debris from the dead bacteria.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

University of Chicago pediatric neurologist Dr. Peter Huttenlocher has chronicled this extraordinary epoch in brain development by autopsying the brains of infants and young children who have died unexpectedly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Henry C. Sweany of Chicago, after autopsying 700 patients whose life-long histories he knew, was convinced that in about half of the adults who die of tuberculosis, the childhood infection flared up.

From Time Magazine Archive