Forensic Sciences and Growth of Cardiology

Copyright: © 2013 Kshemada K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Forensic sciences focussed on investigations of unnatural deaths and crimes have indisputably made significant contribution to advance medical and pharmaceutical sciences in addition to assisting the judiciary. Many examples can be cited of scientific discoveries of novel disorders, causes and mechanisms of diseases, drug toxicity, as well as effectiveness of therapeutic strategies that are secondary outcomes of medico-legal autopsies. Significant among them are related to cardiovascular sciences. Cardiology has notably had immense benefits from Forensic Sciences, early through autopsy studies and lately from forensic genetic testing.