This week is national obesity awareness week. Obesity levels are now chronic in the UK with more and more children and adults and even...

New year, new you? Have you considered a change to your diet, how about Veganuary? Could you go vegan, and would it benefit your body?...

Kobe Bryant, the ‘Black Mamba’, was one of the best basketball players of all time. He played for the LA Lakers and was a top scorer. At...

2023 is set to be a busy year for us here at the Post Mortem Live! We will be continuing to bring our tour, the death of Anton Orlov, to...

New year, new awareness days and months! January marks the beginning of love your liver month. What does this entail? The recent festive...

Are you going to make any new year’s resolutions, if so, are you going to stick to any of them? Being healthier is one that we can all...

Welcome to the wonderful world of histology. Histology is how we study the body on a cellular level. In the world of medicine, we have...

As we come to the end of yet another Christmas season there is one celebrity death that we cannot forget to mention. The death of Kirsty...

This patient's hand was impaled by a door handle. We believe this was caused as they were helping a family member remove the door which...

This is one of the first and most common autopsy findings. Burns of the skin or other tissue are caused by fire, radiant heat, radiation,...

If you’ve ever stubbed your toe hard, you probably know how much it hurts, now imagine the pain this patient went through after hitting...

An 18-year-old man presented to the emergency with a workplace-related injury, requiring a forequarter replantation. The man’s left shirt...

Countercoup head injury is associated with cerebral contusion, a type of traumatic brain injury in which the brain is bruised. How do you...

A barbed fish hook embedded in the eye is an injury unlikely to be forgotten by any ophthalmic surgeon. Yes, those types of injuries...

Often when accidents occur with machinery the motion of the mechanism can cause the dermal layers of the flesh to become ‘skinned’ away...

This patient jumped in the water next to the boat when one of his friends went to start the boat not knowing anyone was in the water. The...

Eleven-year-old Chinese schoolboy Liu Cheong had a brush with death when his friend shot him in the head with a 16-inch arrow, according...

An 18yo male was hit by a car while putting chains on his own vehicle. His only other injury is a closed ipsilateral 33B type distal...

Dog bites result in disruption of the normal barrier function of skin, predisposing it to organisms from the microflora of the dog along...

This young patient tried to climb over a spiked fence when he slipped and impaled his hand on the sharp edge of the fence. Fortunately,...