Should coroners be responsible for unclaimed bodies at nursing homes?
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2023 update on xylazine, a not-so-new drug of abuse
The Chester County Coroner’s office recently hosted a 2023 update on xylazine for law enforcement, first responders, emergency medical providers, and medicolegal death investigators. DEA and FBI agents, Penn Medicine and Cooper University Hospital experts, forensic toxicologist Dr. Sherry Kacinko from NMS Labs, and deputies from Chester County Drug and Alcohol Services and Coroner’s Office…
Heat-related deaths
Hundreds, probably thousands, are dying heat-related deaths in 2023. Doctors and death investigators can do more to document deaths caused by this silent invisible killer.