A new study in JAMA reveals the “statistical erasure” of Indigenous Americans, finding that the gap between AI/AN life expectancy and the national average was 2.9 times greater than official vital statistics indicate.
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Researchers have developed new diagnostic techniques for detecting opioid compounds in adults with opioid use disorder and infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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In June 1979, the remains of an unknown female were located by a stonemason on an embankment between the Juniata River and Route 22/322, near Watts Township in Perry County, Penn.
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The City of Tulsa’s 1921 Graves Investigation has identified James Goings as the second “new” victim of the Tulsa Race Massacre through veterans’ records and family history.
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The research team had initially set out to see if these rings could be used to predict the age of an individual in a forensic setting, such as identifying disaster victims or for situations when an individual’s DNA is not on a DNA database.
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Monash University will play a critical role in supporting the University of the Philippines to establish the Institute over the next four years, educating a core group of forensic doctors who will be capable of investigating death and violence to international standards.
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On Monday, the Shelby County (Tennessee) Board of Commissioners voted to approve the first-ever locally funded crime lab in county history. This will move key evidence testing much closer to home for those in Shelby County.
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This first-in-Canada public resource marks an important step toward proper governance of this new and emerging technology.
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Anthropology students and faculty from Southeast Missouri State University played a key role in identifying human remains discovered in the Mississippi River in 2022, bringing long-awaited closure to a grieving Indiana family.
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Stable isotope analysis can tell apart ivory from mammoths dug up from the permafrost and modern elephants, closing a loophole for selling elephant ivory.
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