CDC: Most Kids Dying From Coronavirus Had Underlying Conditions Enormous racial-ethnic disparities revealed as well Sep 15, 2020
The World Brain Death Project: Answering the Wrong Questions Humility around death serves us and our patients best Aug 30, 2020
Smoking Gun Found for Virus in MIS-C Heart Damage Case First case report documenting viral particles in the heart in MIS-C Aug 24, 2020
Dementia Deaths Vastly Undercounted, Study Suggests And as a result, healthcare resources may need realignment Aug 24, 2020
Fatal Overdoses Often Mistaken for Cardiac Arrest Try naloxone in some cases appearing to be heart-related, researchers suggest Aug 10, 2020
COVID-19 May Plant Seeds of HF, Cardiomyopathy Studies raise concern of chronic CV complications post-pandemic Jul 27, 2020
Autopsy Rates Differ Among Black, White Patients Do differences reflect health disparities? Jun 29, 2020
Forensic Pathologist Breaks Down George Floyd's Death An outside perspective on viral videos, autopsy findings, and the medical examiner's role Jun 05, 2020
New Clue to Anti-PD-L1 Activity in Breast Cancer? Survival benefit with durvalumab in patients with PDL1 copy number alteration May 26, 2020
Autopsies Turn Up Strange Feature of COVID-19 Lungs Study finds more thrombi and a new puzzle in the vessels May 22, 2020
When Did COVID-19 Arrive and Could We Have Spotted It Earlier? A forensic pathologist investigates May 04, 2020
Bad News for Tau PET Tracer in CTE Only modest correlation between imaging result and actual pathology in ex-football player Jan 07, 2020
Residual Breast Cancer Tool Highly Prognostic After Neoadjuvant Tx Tumor burden calculator predicted long-term outcomes in all breast cancer subtypes Dec 14, 2019
Dirty, Smelly, Raw: The Future of Forensic Pathology How can we encourage young doctors to join the field? Dec 10, 2019
Risk Factors for Sudden Infant Death: It's All in the Timing Difference between early neonatal, post-perinatal deaths Dec 09, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein: Hanging or Strangulation? A forensic pathologist on the new accusations Nov 01, 2019
Most Who Die by Suicide Leave No Notes Iowa study shows guns are preferred by men, poison by women Sep 25, 2019
H. Pylori Found in Sleeve Gastrectomy Specimens Incidental findings can have important clinical implications in obese patients Sep 23, 2019
Mystery! The Vanishing Prostate Tumor Do cancers really disappear spontaneously? Or are they just eluding us? Aug 23, 2019
Your Patient Died. Now What? Do's and (one big don't) from an expert forensic pathologist May 14, 2019
Overall Survival Data in for Gilteritinib as AML Salvage Tx FLT3 Inhibitor tops chemotherapy in randomized trial Apr 01, 2019
Liquid Biopsy Matches Tissue for NSCLC Guidance Increased mutation detection rate, faster turnaround time Feb 27, 2019
Why Was This Nonsmoker Coughing for Months? COPD inhaler didn't help, but bronchoscopy did Feb 04, 2019
When the Dead Need a Primary Care Physician For some people, the medical examiner may be their only doctor Nov 08, 2018
Upfront MRI Could Rule Out Prostate Ca in Most, Reduce Biopsy Need Less-costly biparametric MRI can spare men from TRUS biopsy Jun 08, 2018
Assay May Help Avoid Needless Prostate Biopsies Distinguishes clinically significant from insignificant/benign disease May 19, 2018
Sorting Out Genomic Tests for Prostate Cancer Discordance between tests, with NCCN risk criteria May 18, 2018
Genetic Test Criteria Often Miss Breast Cancer Risk Similar cancer-linked mutations in patients who did or did not met test criteria May 07, 2018
A Patient's Journey: And Now, a Word from a Pathologist Howard Wolinsky goes one-on-one with pathologist and blogger Lester Raff, MD Jan 02, 2018
From Hopeless to Healer: Persecuted in Nigeria, Stonewalled by the NFL Early struggles prepared Bennet Omalu for character assassination in the U.S. Sep 20, 2017 video
Uptick in Creutzfeld-Jakob Cases Raises Questions (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Is chronic wasting disease in deer making the jump to humans? Jul 10, 2017
Genomic Testing Helps Cancer Patients -- When Results are Used Also, liquid biopsy can ID drug-responsive tumors Jun 06, 2017
Video Capsule Endoscopy Proves Useful in PJS Patients Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome carries increased risk for bowel neoplasia May 10, 2017
Serum Ferritin, Iron Linked to A1c in Uncontrolled T2D Iron indices may act as surrogate markers May 10, 2017
Should Repeat FNA for Thyroid Nodules Again Be Recommended? A systematic review and meta-analysis reported a 98% NPV for repeat FNA May 04, 2017
AAD: A Skin-Based Test for Alzheimer's Disease? Small study show high Tau protein levels in buccal swabs Mar 05, 2017
MedPAC Looks at Ways to Adjust Misvalued Services Commission debates grouping CPT codes into families Sep 09, 2016
