In the most comprehensive autopsy tissue study conducted to date, researchers have found traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus throughout the entire body, from the brain and the heart to the eyes. The ...

Mary Fowkes, a pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, examines brain slices from an autopsy. Courtesy of Mary Fowkes Normally, when James Stone, a pathologist at Massachusetts General ...

More Americans are relying on costly companies to examine their deceased loved ones due in part to a longstanding shortage of public practitioners. Autopsy specimen containers sit in a private lab.

Here’s the latest news from the pandemic. Autopsies were a cornerstone of medicine for more than 2,000 years, but sophisticated diagnostic tools and health-system budget cuts have rendered them a ...

A series of autopsies conducted by LSU Health New Orleans pathologists shows the damage to the hearts of COVID-19 patients is not the expected typical inflammation of the heart muscle associated with ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of French researchers has found that prions are more easily able to jump between species than has been previously thought. In their paper published in Science, they show that ...