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ASB Newsletter – August 29, 2025
Indoor cats scavenging behind closed doors
We report a rare case of postmortem scavenging by cats in Japan involving the skeletonized remains of a woman in her 80s discovered in a locked, garbage‐filled room. The body was missing many bones, including vertebrae other than the atlas with odontoid process. The remaining bon...
Elucidating the etiology of idiopathic spontaneous intraperitoneal hemorrhage
Free blood within the abdominal cavity (hemoperitoneum) presents a significant diagnostic and interpretive challenge. It may result from trauma or occur spontaneously in association with underlying disease conditions. When no source of fatal hemorrhage is identified, the implicat...
Commentary on: Sağlam İ, Aslan R, Akgür SA, Kurtulmuş Y. Abuse of gabapentinoids in...
Correction to “The development of two fast genotyping assays for the differentiation of...
ASB Newsletter – August 22, 2025
Call for Moderators for AAFS 2026: Pathology/Biology Section
Obstructive coronary ostial thromboemboli mimicking vegetation
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in adolescents is rare and often attributed to previously undiagnosed cardiac conditions, including genetic cardiomyopathies, congenital anomalies, conduction disorders, or thrombotic events. In atypical cases, intracardiac or vascular thromboembolism m...
General Section Mentor/Mentee Call September 16
The Original Medicolegal DeathInvestigator Fall Training Course
Looking Forward to AAFS 2026
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Quantitative study of zero‐amplitude sample padding in iOS AAC encoding: Consistency...
Zero‐amplitude sample padding ("zero‐padding") is automatically inserted during Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoding by iOS applications such as Apple Voice Memos, potentially affecting the reliability of forensic audio stream hashing by altering decoded audio data stru...
Optimization and validation of a method for rapid quantitation of fentanyl in seized‐drug...
The rise of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl‐related substances has overwhelmed seized‐drug laboratories and resulted in an explosive surge of analysis requests, increasing backlogs and turn‐around times. Direct analysis in real time (DART) ionization in combination w...