Finalizing a cause of death could take upward of three months, said Jim Garrow, a spokesperson for the Department of Public Health.
By Kelly Brennan
Category: Media mentions
Manayunk Cause and Manner of Death
A spokesperson for the city Medical Examiner’s Office said that Kayden died of “blunt-impact injuries of the head,” and that Mancuso hanged himself.
By Julie Shaw
Lafferty Obituary
“The Medical Examiner’s Office has not made a ruling, and it’s listed as pending investigation,” emailed James Garrow, spokesperson for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, which includes the coroner’s office.
By Bonnie Cook
“Dog Days” Heat Wave Update
So far the city has reported just one heat-related death, James Garrow, spokesperson for the Health Department, affirmed Monday.
By Anthony Wood
Pitbull Attacks
Office spokesperson James Garrow said an autopsy Friday morning determined that the death was “accidental” and resulted from “multiple blunt and penetrating injuries.”
By Julie Shaw
Treating Opioids Addiction in Prison
Of the 2,522 people who died after their release from city prisons between 2010 and 2016, a third died of overdoses, according to a city health department study published in the scientific journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence this month. And former inmates were particularly at risk in the first two weeks after their release. (It’s too early to tell whether the new buprenorphine program has had an effect on overdoses among former inmates, prison officials said.)
By Aubrey Whelan
July 20 – 21, 2018 Overdose Cluster 3
The health department reported additional test results late Friday on drug packets related to last weekend’s overdose spike, concluding, “The Department of Public Health now believes that 5F-ADB was the primary cause of the cluster of patients with these adverse drug reactions.”
https://whyy.org/articles/synthetic-marijuana-detected-in-drug-sample-from-philly-overdose-spike/
By Joel Wolfram
Pizza Restaurant Complaints 2
A representative for the city’s Department of Public Health told the outlet that the restaurant was indeed visited on Monday, but the “sanitarian” was unable to contact an inspection as it had already closed.
“Our sanitarian spoke with the owner and confirmed that this establishment will be inspected when they re-open,” said James Garrow of the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health.
By Michael Bartiromo
July 20 – 21, 2018 Overdose Cluster 2
“We don’t want to make a definite confirmation until we know more,” said James Garrow, spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.
Garrow stated the heroin tested by the Willow Grove lab came from an independent purchase, not from an overdose victim, and that the samples were sold outside city limits, and not near where the bulk of the overdoses occurred in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood.
“That said, the reactions that victims displayed upon being revived is consistent with the synthetic cannabinoid being present. We don’t want to make a definite confirmation until we know more,” Garrow wrote in an email.
By Aubrey Whelan
Heat Islands Within Philadelphia
In the last 10 years, there have been 104 heat-related deaths in Philadelphia, according to the Department of Public Health, the most recent one occurring this month. But according to James Garrow, a spokesman for the Health Department, “deaths that are considered heat-related are the product of … investigation and pathologist examination and are not simply yes-or-no heat-related definition,” so that definition varies.
https://whyy.org/articles/exploring-ways-to-cool-down-neighborhoods-vulnerable-to-the-heat/
By Catalina Jaramillo
The Collected Works of Jim Garrow 