Long Covid has begun appearing on death certificates for a small percentage of people who have died during the pandemic, but that tiny fraction of records only hints at the whole story, two experts ...

A death certificate is a final marker in someone’s life — an official accounting of the end. The legal forms are used by families to settle estates and by public health officials to assess whether the ...

Whereas the designation of sex is essential for data collection, statistics, and policy for many functions of the state, including public health, education, the protection of sex-specific spaces, ...

Policy has been changed, and there could be a federal law enacted, surrounding an issue facing military families nationwide and here at home. The problem is a delay in some veteran death certificates ...

Sen. Will Parkinson has introduced legislation to resolve delays in death certificates recently raised by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Keng-Chih Su.

Trial lawyers in personal injury cases frequently see death certificates within the (sometimes) voluminous pages of medical records at issue. The death certificate may be critical in a lawsuit for ...

Doctors are refusing to sign death certificates, causing delays in medical examinations, releasing bodies to families and funeral services, according to Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Keng-Chih Su.