BACKGROUND: Some people in states of excited delirium die while in police custody.
Emerging evidence suggests that physical restraint in certain positions may contribute to such …

The utility and validity of the diatom test for drowning was studied using a retrospective analysis
of 771 cases of drowning mostly from Ontario, Canada, over the period 1977 to 1993. In …

Six illustrative cases of homicidal drowning are reported in which the diatom test for drowning
was a useful adjunct to the medicolegal investigation of death. In all six cases, diatom …

In part two of this series, we investigated the characteristics of diatom frustules recovered from
bone marrow and samples of putative drowning medium in case of freshwater drownings. …

… Pollanen: critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content. Elizabeth J. Donner:
study concept and design, analysis and interpretation of the data, critical revision of manuscript …

Safe and effective vaccines are needed to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we report the
preclinical development of a lipid nanoparticle–formulated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine, …

The hyoid is the U-shaped bone of the neck that is fractured in one-third of all homicides by
strangulation. On this basis, postmortem detection of hyoid fracture is relevant to the …

Most polymers which comprise biological filaments assemble by two mechanisms: nucleation
and elongation or a sequential, stepwise process involving a hierarchy of intermediate …

The diagnosis of strangulation at autopsy is a persistent challenge for the forensic pathologist.
The main difficulty is interpreting the observations made at the postmortem table and …

Nodding syndrome is an epidemic neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children
in the subsistence-farming communities of East Africa. We report the neuropathologic …