In recent years hair has become a fundamental biological specimen, alternative to the usual samples blood and urine, for drug testing in the fields of forensic toxicology, clinical toxicology and clinical chemistry. Moreover, hair-testing is now extensively used in workplace testing, as well as, on legal cases, historical research etc. This article reviews methodological and practical issues re...

introduction: natural and unexpected death that happens within less than one hour of first symptom occurrence is called sudden death. cardiovascular diseases are the main known reason of sudden death and more than 75% of sudden deaths in athletes are assigned to it. here we reported the autopsy results of all cases with sudden death following exercise that were referred to forensic center of te...

Ahed J Alkhatib1,2* and Suha Khaiery Ababneh3 Author Affiliations 1Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology Forensic Jordan University Science & Technology, 2International Mariinskaya Academy, Department medicine critical care, philosophy, Academician secretary department Sociology, Jordon 3Department Biological Sciences, Faculty Science, The Jordan, Amman, Received: August 05, 2021 | Published...

Background: To determine the role of drugs in fatal overdose, analyses were done on samples obtained from autopsy examination and death and crime scene investigations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of toxicology analyses of postmortem biological and non-biological samples belonging to a subject in determining the forensic cause of death. Methods: Toxicological analysi...

Lead Medical, Asia Pacific Region Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Mumbai, Maharashtra Received: 13.05.2016; Accepted: 20.11.2016 humans.4,7 While learning pharmacology the students learn key concepts that are important to understand the drug actions, including principles of pharmacokinetics as well as the physiological and cellular basis of diverse drug actions. Topics that are explored in forensic ph...

The use of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has recently exploded in various analytic fields, including toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring (although still far behind pharmacokinetics). There is no doubt that LC-MS is currently competing with gas chromatography (GC)-MS for the status of the reference analytic technique in toxicology. This review presents, for the nonspecia...

The purpose of postmortem forensic toxicological analysis is to determine the role of any unknown drug/poison in causing death. The first and the most important step in the analysis scheme is the screening of biological specimens for the presence of drugs/poison. Currently, general unknown screening (GUS) or systemic toxicological analysis (STA) procedure involves gas chromatography-mass spectr...

I. Forensic toxicity testing A. Analytic chemistry melded with organ damage consistent with the compound and concentration found (consonance of data) 1. Most intentional poisoning deaths suicide; most unintentional poisoning deaths from overdose of opioids and cocaine; toxicity from ethanol, drugs of abuse, overuse of medications lead car crash causes; unintentional nonfatal poisonings causes b...