Toxicology

transportation-safety

On August 26, 2009, Diane Schuler died in a head-on collision on the New York State Thruway after her SUV crossed into oncoming traffic. She was accompanied by her husband, daug...

health-explainer

In public investigations, a toxicology report provides objective chemical data from biological samples, typically blood or urine, to identify substances and approximate concentr...

Health & Science

Chris Cornell, the singer and songwriter behind Soundgarden, died on May 17, 2017. The official determination was suicide by hanging. This article summarizes the verified detail...

evergreen-profiles

Public discussion of Brittany Murphy drug use centers on a 2007 acute pneumonia hospitalization and subsequent death, during which medications including hydrocodone, acetaminoph...

Celebrity Profiles

In June 2018, Anthony Bourdain was found unresponsive in his hotel room in France, and official investigations later confirmed his death as a suicide. Public interest in the cas...

health

Small, smooth fragments often pass through the digestive tract without serious harm, but larger or sharp objects, toxic additives, and certain manufacturing chemicals can raise...

health-and-safety

Cory Monteith died on July 13, 2013, at age 31, from a toxic drug overdose that involved multiple substances, primarily heroin, as confirmed by the coroner’s investigation in...

health-and-safety

Antifreeze poisoning occurs when someone swallows or inhels ethylene glycol, the main toxic ingredient in many automotive antifreezes and deicing fluids, or less commonly propyl...

forensic science

The official toxicology report for Taylor Hawkins, released by the Medical Examiner in early 2022, listed multiple detected substances following his death in a Bogotá hotel roo...