Scientists are questioning how soon we should be harvesting organs.

The clinically dead patients also had spikes of gamma, delta, theta, alpha and beta brain waves associated with thinking and ...

ATLANTA — The family of a 30-year-old metro Atlanta mother and nurse said she was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago — but is still being kept alive because she’s pregnant. Adriana Smith, a ...

The human brain could remain conscious for up to several hours after death, according to a new study. Data has revealed that ...

Just before it ceases functioning, the brain may make a last-ditch effort to find unresolved purpose or a reason to stay ...

A prominent recent case involved a 23-year-old Jamaican woman who admitted herself to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for elective surgery on July 30, 2024. In February, Amber Ebanks, a ...

Diverse team of doctors consult on a TV screen showing MRI scan with brain images. [iStock Photos] A person declared brain-dead does not recover or wake up-they eventually die, according to medical ...

Georgia mom who was declared brain dead at eight weeks pregnant has given birth. The Georgia mom who was declared brain dead while pregnant has given birth via C-section to a premature baby boy who ...

Bilal Arshadullah is a biology major and biotechnology minor and a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. In 2013, ...