Six police officers in North Chicago, Illinois, have been reassigned to desk jobs while Illinois State Police and local authorities investigate why a 45-year-old man died in police custody last month, officials said Thursday.
Authorities will have to await a necropsy to find out killed one of the equine world's top athletes, a stallion named Hickstead.
Singer Amy Winehouse's death this summer was the result of alcohol poisoning, an inquest ruled Wednesday, as it reached a verdict of "death by misadventure."
Jazz legend Tony Bennett says Amy Winehouse was the best.
Human remains found over the weekend in northern California have been identified as those of Michelle Le, a nursing student who was last seen in a hospital parking garage more than three months ago, police said.
Details from the autopsy of a woman found hanging from a California mansion -- including exact words of a painted message -- bolster her family's contention that she didn't commit suicide as authorities determined, the family's lawyer says.
Did Rebecca Zahau commit suicide or was she murdered?
Necropsy results also determined that the animal had a swelling of the brain brought on by infection
The parents of a teen who died in 2005 learn the medical examiner kept their son's brain. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Andre and Korisha Shipley were still mourning the death of their 17-year-old son, Jesse, when two months after his funeral, they received shocking news from students of the same Staten Island, New York, high school Jesse had attended. Members of a forensic science club on a field trip to the morgue couldn't believe what they noticed on a cabinet in the medical examiner's lab.
A chemistry professor at Harvard University is trying to shrink a medical laboratory onto a piece of paper that's the size of a fingerprint and costs about a penny.
Chemist George Whitesides, who hopes to fight disease with comic book and computer chip technology, talks to CNN at TED.
The private forensic pathologist who conducted an autopsy on Drew Peterson's third wife affirmed the official findings that ruled the death a homicide, a copy of the autopsy report shows.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell speaks with Lisa Bloom about a new autopsy of Drew Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio.
KOMO brings us the story of a teen who was able to diagnose herself, after doctors were not.
For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school.
A pathologist hired by the family of one of two women whose mysterious deaths in Thailand drew worldwide attention says her "lungs were 100 percent congested," Jill St. Onge's fiancee and brother said.
In August, just days before her daughter was to start her sophomore year of college, Dr. Lucy Sauer faced a troubling choice: Should her daughter have a device surgically implanted in her chest to control her heart rhythm?
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen offers tips on how to get a second opinion from your living room.
The sabal palm, Florida's state tree, is under attack by a microscopic killer that has scientists stumped
Despite passing a stress test on April 29, the newsman's personal doctor says he died of a heart attack
The death of Kathleen Savio, Drew Peterson's third wife, has been ruled a homicide. CNN's Nancy Grace reports.
The family of a missing Illinois woman has an "eerie feeling of dread" after a ruling that her husband's previous wife was a victim of homicide, a spokeswoman said.
A pathologist has determined that the death of the third wife of former police Sgt. Drew Peterson was a homicide, James Glasgow, the state's attorney in Will County, said Thursday.
Developments in the retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez from November 6-10, 1995
A Michigan judge has granted prosecutors' request to drop the assisted suicide charge against Dr. Jack Kevorkian leaving only the murder charge intact for his upcoming trial.
In a ruling anticipated by Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his appellate lawyers, the trial judge who sent the reputed "Dr. Death" to prison in April rejected his request for a new trial.
Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel died as a result of a lethal combination of methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro, pathologist Dr. Govinda Raju said Monday.
A state law enforcement investigators' report -- obtained by CNN from a confidential source close to the investigation -- into the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina provides new details about the events that occurred at Memorial Medical Center.
An inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer ended in indecision, when a Jamaican jury was unable to determine the cause of death after hearing testimony from more than 50 people over five weeks.
Doctor's View: A frightened cancer patient inadvertently heard terrible news. Anesthesia erased her memory. It was a snap decision -- and a compassionate one. But was it right?
A Phoenix police sergeant discusses an incident where a woman died following her arrest at the city's airport.
Jamaican police put an end to a sports world mystery: the coach of Pakistan's World Cup team died of a heart attack
Pakistan World Cup cricket coach Bob Woolmer died from natural causes and was not strangled as police earlier concluded, the Jamaican police commissioner said
Detectives were waiting on Thursday for a pathologist's report on the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer as his wife Gill said she did not rule out the possibility that he had been murdered.
Officials at the Georgia Aquarium said Tuesday that it could take weeks to figure out why Ralph the whale shark suddenly died last week.
Three British Airways planes, grounded while authorities examined them for traces of radiation, have been cleared to return to service, officials with Britain's Health Protection Agency said Saturday.
Pathologists took extreme precautions Friday performing an autopsy on the body of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died after ingesting a fatal dose of the rare radioactive element polonium-210, according to the coroner's office.
A post-mortem examination on the body of poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko was being carried out in London Friday with special precautions being taken because of the nature of his death.
For Cyril Wecht, arguably the country's most famous forensic pathologist, the last few weeks have been busy.
Autopsy results obtained by CNN show a mentally disabled man was shot in the back when he was killed by New Orleans police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Dear Annie: I was laid off by a well-known financial services company that was undergoing a major reorganization a couple of years ago. Now I hear through the grapevine that they're hiring again in the area where I used to work. I was very happy there and got great performance reviews. But I've always had the impression that companies don't like to rehire people they've laid off. Should I apply anyway, just in case? -Boomerang Banker
An interim toxicological examination of Slobodan Milosevic's body indicates the former Yugoslav leader was not poisoned, the president of the U.N. war crimes tribunal at The Hague said.
A lawyer for Slobodan Milosevic has denied news reports that the former leader of Yugoslavia altered his medication to discredit medical care at a Dutch detention center and be allowed to seek treatment in Russia.
Preliminary autopsy results indicate that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack, a spokeswoman for the U.N. war crimes tribunal said Sunday.
Marine experts who failed to rescue a stranded whale were waiting for test results that could help explain how the animal ended up in the shallow waters of London's Thames River.
Growing up in Yonkers, New York, a blue-collar suburb that borders the Bronx, Robert V.P. Hutter dreamed from the time he was 10 than he would become a great psychiatrist. He didn't.
Fate has a sense of irony, said Gregory S. Henderson, M.D., Ph.D. That's his explanation for the twist of fate that made him one of the few physicians available to the huddled masses trapped by Katrina's waters on the downtown streets of New Orleans -- "and I'm a pathologist!"
Authorities are doing everything possible to ensure samples of a killer influenza virus sent to more than 4,000 laboratories worldwide are destroyed before anyone becomes infected, a top U.S. disease expert says.
The World Health Organization has told laboratories to immediately destroy samples of a flu virus after a Canadian lab identified it as a strain that triggered a 1957 pandemic.
Fortune: Khrushchev's Revengeupdated: Mon Oct 12 1998 00:01:00
Some pretty good Russia jokes are making the rounds on Wall Street these days. A sampling:
Few medical topics get as much scary press as genetic testing. The typical story: A person learns from a DNA test that he's inherited a faulty gene predisposing him to, say, a fatal brain disease y...
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