Autopsies can be used to determine the effectiveness of surgical procedures and drug treatments.
The only alternatives are autopsies of companies gone bad, in which stupid and venal bosses ruin everything.
Yet studies of autopsies have shown that doctors misdiagnose fatal illnesses about 20 percent of the time.
Investigators were awaiting autopsies on the victims to determine exactly how they died.
And all that stuff about alien bodies being recovered and autopsies being performed?
McCarthy's testimony contradicted the findings of Dr. Irwin Golden, the coroner who performed the autopsies on Jose and Kitty Menendez.
At a cellular level, he surmised, we are affected by what we eat, so he performed autopsies on two sets of humans.
The investigation was continuing and autopsies were planned later in the week.
Hospital autopsies are much different than autopsies you see on crime shows.
The day's testimony concluded with a detective who interviewed people wounded in the attack and the two coroners who conducted the 12 autopsies.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol Marine Operations Division and the Division of Drug and Crime Control were investigating, and autopsies were planned, authorities said.
Federal officials told CNN that they have no rules set up to cover autopsies because the last federal execution was a hanging in 1963.
Autopsies are being conducted Thursday and Friday, coroner Whitney Meeker said.
Simpson prosecutors said they will not call to the witness stand the controversial pathologist who performed the autopsies on Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.
He termed the autopsies adequate in light of the more than 30 errors committed by Dr. Irwin Golden, the deputy medical examiner who performed the autopsies.
Simpson trial, at least for now, and is preparing to question the coronor who conducted the autopsies on slashing victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
They have not been released to relatives because autopsies are being performed as part of the state attorney general's investigation of nursing home deaths in Katrina's wake.
The Louisiana attorney general's office is investigating allegations that mercy killings occurred and has requested that autopsies be performed on all 45 bodies taken from the hospital after the storm.
Autopsies showed that Quan and Lawrence were killed by multiple gunshot wounds in the parking structure at their condominium in Irvine, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said earlier Wednesday.
The coroner said the attorney general's office has requested autopsies but, because of the condition of the bodies, it may be difficult to determine why so many patients died at Memorial.
Noah won its case, Dr Menache said, by basing it on actual autopsies of birds that had been force-fed to prove the damage to their digestive system, throat and other organs.
"Autopsies will show what the cause of death of these victims was but we can already say that among them were disabled people, children as well as elderly people, " Masovic said.
Until now, clinicians have only been able to find CTE through autopsies, focusing their efforts on ex-athletes with a history of head injuries who tended to die after demonstrating some cognitive impairment.
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The Los Angeles County chief medical examiner went over Tuesday how the autopsies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were conducted, including a string of errors that were made in handling evidence.
The Louisiana attorney general has requested autopsies of the dead found in nursing homes and hospitals after the storm to determine whether they died due to abandonment, negligence or euthanasia and whether criminal charges are warranted.
Results from the autopsies on Michael and Thelma King will be discussed by prosecutors and police, but they will not be released to the public "in the interest of the investigation, " the public prosecutor's office said Monday.
At a news conference today, Dr. Louis Cataldie, the Louisiana health official who's in charge of the process, says the autopsies required by the attorney general are slowing down the identification and return of bodies to relatives.
Some 20% of cognitively healthy older adults have been found during autopsies to have large quantities of amyloid in the brain, according to Denise Park, director of the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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