autopsy

A cause of death was not revealed, but an autopsy Monday found no signs of trauma that would have been a contributing factor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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

“We must await the autopsy results to confirm whether his body simply gave out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

They arranged for an autopsy at Francklyn Cottage, sending for an expert in postmortem examinations.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

Last week authorities in the South-East Asian country said they couldn't determine if the deaths "were caused by the actions of any individual or by any particular cause, because no autopsies were conducted".

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Authorities have kept the death toll at 12 and cautioned that the number of missing people remains uncertain until autopsies and the identification of recovered bodies are completed.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024

Dr. Anne Shepler, a forensic pathologist at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center who autopsied Brandon’s body, told the Winston-Salem Journal that he died from breathing smoke and fumes.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2023

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