On TV shows like CSI, pathologists are the ones who do the autopsies. But Dr. Jerry Hussong is a clinical pathologist who says the job entails much more than that. He says most of the work ...

"Death has always fascinated humans, as far back as recorded history we have temples and gods in honour of death and dying," said forensic pathologist Charmaine van Wyk. "I have no idea why this is, ...

A pathologist is a doctor who looks at bodies and body tissues. They run tests in a lab and often work in tandem with other medical specialists to diagnose medical conditions. Pathology is broken up ...

A pathologist is a physician who examines samples of body tissues and fluids in a laboratory setting in order to assist other healthcare providers in diagnosing disease, dysfunction, and illness. When ...

We don't like to admit it but cancer is rarely black and white. Increasingly a cancer diagnosis means living in a murky morass of constantly reassessing risk. Here's one man's story of living on that ...

The number of pathologists in the United States decreased by 17.53% from 2007 to 2017, despite a corresponding 41.73% rise in diagnostic workload per pathologist, a study published online May 31 in ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Early in her career, Susan Ely helped put a serial killer behind bars. It was the late 1990s, and she was working as a fellow at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) of the City of New York.