Disease Deaths
How deadly is measles?
The county where I live is adjacent to Lancaster County, PA, which is getting first-hand experience with how deadly measles
September 27, 2026
The county where I live is adjacent to Lancaster County, PA, which is getting first-hand experience with how deadly measles
The remains of more than 20,000 unclaimed veterans await burial, according to a 2023 VA survey. Most of these veterans
Given the rampant mistrust of all levels of government, it’s understandable that the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham would
Sometime an uncommon form of diabetes isn’t discovered until the coroner makes a postmortem diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis.
Until recently, few people had heard of Social Security’s Death Master File (DMF). But since the revelations about Elon Musk’s DOGE plan to weaponize the DMF, the database has become notorious. What should you know about it?
Updated June3, 2026 Deaths involving “ICE” used to prompt a mental image of someone dying of hypothermia after a fall
We don’t know how many people die in custody each year and even less
about how they die. What can coroners do about it?
If you’ve recently tried to find out what happened to someone from your past (and who hasn’t?), an online search
When I did an online search for “what is kratom?” this past week, thousands of results popped up. That wasn’t
On February 12, Brianna Mohr, a healthy and athletic 21-year-old hiker was found on an Adirondack mountain after freezing to
Are coroners and medical examiners already using artificial intelligence (AI) in their medicolegal death investigations? For what purposes? How will
On November 8, 2018, while I was Chester County (PA)’s Coroner, we held a memorial ceremony, perhaps the first ever,