What’s new beyond forensics

Excerpt

The new Editor-in-Chief is bringing fresh ideas to the journal, and one of them was to change the name of this section from “Ba’alat” to something new, as it was felt by many that the old name is not sufficiently explanatory. After exchanging our thoughts on this, we agreed on “What’s new beyond forensics”, a title that hopefully will arouse the interests of the reader while explaining what the section is. Other than that, friends of this section will be pleased to know, it will remain the same—it will be the same authors giving a short review of forensically relevant articles from non-forensic journals, bringing these papers to the attention of the forensic community. This issue’s choices include a spectrum of topics ranging from incident reconstruction to factors influencing autopsy rates, and adverse drug effects to injury documentation.

Zabell J, Neshelsky M, Thomsen T, Alpen M, Kealey GP, Light TD. Rural versus urban trauma: Demographic influences on autopsy rates. J Surg Res 2008; online first; doi: 10.​1016/​j.​jss.​2008.​06.​047.

…