Anatomy professor Andrew Payer may never get a real cadaver with a rare cerebrovascular disorder to show his students, but now he has a virtual cadaver displayed on a table-sized touch-screen surface ...

Dead men don’t snore. Three different doctors had declared a 29-year-old prison inmate dead. All three were wrong. Gonzalo Montoya Jimenez was found unresponsive on the floor of his cell in northern ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — As it is with stadium seats and amusement-park rides, so it is with autopsy tables and morgue drawers, cadaver carts and other equipment used to hoist, lift and carry the dead.

A forensic pathologist straps on his face shield, switches on his saw and slices into a skull. The whir of the power tool bounces off the gleaming stainless-steel autopsy table. In another room, a ...