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The article offers information on the New York City Forensic Pathology Fellows Program for medical examiners offered in New York City, New York and the demand for qualified and trained medical examiners in the U.S. Topics include the data from the U.S. National Association of Medical Examiners on the need for more forensic pathologists in the U.S., the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, and the role of medical examiners from consoling grieving relatives to aiding police work.

The article reports on how deceased victims of Hurricane Katrina, scattered throughout the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, were collected, identified and buried after the flood waters receded. Details regarding the case of an unidentified black man found on Union Street are reviewed. Comments from state medical examiner Dr. Louis Cataldie and city coroner Dr. Frank Minyard are included. INSETS: A Struggling Coast;Then and Now.

The article reports that U.S. forensic pathology experts have criticized the autopsy report of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. It states that standard medical procedure is very crucial in determining whether Bhutto was shot, hit by shrapnel from a suicide bomb, or died from getting head injuries. Various possible explanations for Bhutto's death are also presented by several forensic experts.

Reports that the remains of more than a thousand people who died in the September 11, 2001 attack on New York City's World Trade Center will be preserved in a memorial space built at ground zero, in the hope that science will advance to the point that they can be identified. Challenge of accommodating relatives of people killed in the attack, who have asked that unidentified remains be interred at the site; Approach used by the medical examiner's office to preserve the remains; Efforts by the medical examiner's office to match the remains with people listed as missing; Role of DNA; Comments of Shiya Ribowsky, deputy director of investigation; Details of the memorial.

Reports on the call of the United States for forensic experts to investigate massacres of Kosovo villagers in Serbia in 1998. Comments from James Foley, a spokesman for the State Department; Significance of the participation of international forensic experts to the study; Views of Michael D. McCurry, the White House spokesman.

Discusses the reasons behind the decision of Charles Wetli, Chief Medical Examiner for Suffolk County, Long Island, to confine autopsy operations on victims of the Trans World Airlines Flight 800 crash to his own staff. Delays due to lack of dental records of victims; Importance of forensic evidence from the corpses; Potential criminal dimensions of the crash.