Shipman found dead in prison cell

Persons found in their homes helpless or dead.

BACKGROUND Health care providers and providers of emergency services are sometimes called to help with people who are found alone in their homes either helpless or dead. It is not known who is at risk for being found helpless or dead, what the mortality rates are among those found alive, or how frequently this situation occurs. METHODS We conducted a population-based study of patients who wer...

Speaking for the dead to protect the living: the role of the coroner and the Shipman Inquiry.

After Shipman: reforming the GMC--again.

Post mortem findings in sows and gilts euthanised or found dead in a large Swedish herd

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to get information on post mortem diagnoses of sows found dead or euthanised and to understand the diagnoses aetiology (causative background). Moreover, the study was to evaluate the association between the clinical symptoms observed on farm and post mortem findings. METHODS A large Swedish herd was studied from January to September 2006. During the 32-wee...

Increased incidence of lymphoreticular aggregates in lungs of children found unexpectedly dead.

Emery, J. L., and Dinsdale, F. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 107. Increased incidence oflymphoreticular aggregates in lungs of children found unexpectedly dead. A quantitative study was carried out of the number of lymphoreticular aggregates in standard sections of the lungs of 316 children. Of these, 128 showed no recognizable lung disease, 104 of whom presented as sudden unexp...