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Patricia Stallings (born 1964 or 1965) is an American woman who was wrongfully convicted of murder after the death of her son Ryan on September 7, 1989. Because testing seemed to indicate an elevated level of ethylene glycol in Ryan's blood, authorities suspected antifreeze poisoning and they arrested Stallings the next day. She was convicted ...
Orfila, a 19th-century Spanish physician and scientist, is a founder of modern toxicology that autopsied poison victims to evaluate target organ specific effects (liver, kidney, GI track, brain, etc.). [1] Researchers have been able to ascertain toxicity associated with abnormal development with new breakthrough in developmental biology ...
Although these tests are recommended per guidelines, there are several considerations to understand when performing these tests. With urine toxicology tests, samples must be collected immediately after birth since these tests only capture a short window of substance exposure due to the rapid metabolism and elimination of most drugs of concern. [32]
A babysitter in Hawaii has been found guilty of manslaughter in the 2019 death of a 7-month-old baby girl. According to local media outlets Star-Advertiser, KITV and KHON2, an Oahu Circuit Court ...
Changes in toxicology testing policies. The consequences of punitive policies toward substance use during pregnancy have been especially damaging for families of color and of low socioeconomic status.
Post-mortem diagnosis is the use of post-mortem chemistry analysis tests to diagnose a disease after someone has died. Some diseases are unknown until death, or were not correctly diagnosed earlier. One way that diseases can be diagnosed is by examining the concentrations of certain substances in the blood or other sample types.
The parents of a 4-year-old Clermont County girl, who prosecutors say died of complications from diabetes after being fed mostly Mountain Dew through a baby bottle, have pleaded guilty to charges ...
Though Riley was only prescribed 0.35 milligrams of clonidine per day at the time of her death, [14] a toxicology screening found that Riley had ingested "two to three times" that amount. Court documents report that in children, the therapeutic range of clonidine is 1.5 to 2 nanograms per milliliter of blood; Riley's blood measured at 12 ...