Medico-Legal Update

Table of Contents

• DNA Profiling Bill 2007 and the future of paternity disputes

  • Author: Vinitha Johnson

• Fatal mechanical asphyxia

  • Author: Vikram Palimar, M Arun, Y.P. Raghavendra Babu

• Medicosocial & medicolegal aspects of sexual offences: The current scenario in an urban location of Western India

  • Author: Lavlesh Kumar, Swapnil S Agarwal, Tapaswi Puwar, Krishnadutt H Chavali

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Recent analytical techniques in detection of poisons in lab

  • Author: R.K. Chaturvedi, S. Das, K Animesh, M. Pathak

• Do's & don'ts in postmortem examination

  • Author: V. Vijayanath

• Terror hits Temple city

  • Author: Manoj Kumar, Prashant Agrawal, S K Tripathi

• Deaths due to drowning in Punjab – A survey [2005 to 2006]

  • Author: Mukesh Kumar Thakar, Sandeep Singh Sahota, Rajvinder Singh

• Fetal age determination from length of femur and humerus by Ultrasonography

  • Author: RK Gorea, Parveen Mohan, Anil Garg, Nayana Pathak

• Medical certification of cause of death

  • Author: Ranjit Kr. Das

• Survival period in fatal road traffic accidents

  • Author: Harnam Singh, S K Dhattarwal, Gaurav Sharma, Shilekh Mittal, Rakashdeep Aggarwal, Rahul Chawla

• Extent of heterogeneity in the poly-nucleotide stretches of mtDNA hypervariable regions in the Indian population

  • Author: Garima Agrawal, Devinder Singh, Vijay Kumar Goyal