In each of these cases, doctors declared children brain dead, but they did so with minimal professional guidance, leaving their diagnoses subject to criticism from all sides. New guidelines ...

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Sedatives, facial trauma, or metabolic disturbances can cloud that picture. Many centers have turned to computed-tomography flow imaging, betting that a scan can settle what the stethoscope cannot. In ...

When questioned on the details of the actor’s fatal fall, which many have questioned for years, Shannon Price didn’t get the ...

Gary Coleman's ex-wife, Shannon Price, has faced scrutiny for her behavior following the 2010 fall that resulted in the 'Diff ...

Where, exactly, is the line between life and death? Does the answer change if the person asking is not a philosopher but a transplant surgeon eager to save a life? Or a patient desperate for a new ...

Brain death test in UK under review after baby declared dead began breathing independently A senior doctor has said she was "shocked" when a baby declared brain stem dead after two tests started ...

By the time her heart started again, her brain had been without oxygen for too long. I watched as the lead neurologist went through the steps of the brain death exam that by now have grown familiar.

Neurologists, Andrew Wilner and Lucas Elijovich discuss the updated guidelines on the brain death criteria and guidelines.

The researchers assessed contrast-enhanced brain CT perfusion with CT angiography reconstructions performed within 2 hours of a blinded, standardized clinical brain death exam.

Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into brain-dead patient 1 month ago is still functioning, doctors say Doctors say it could lead to more animal-human transplants in the future.

Science The allure and dangers of experimenting with brain-dead bodies For scientists who perform medical research on the recently deceased, there are few regulatory or ethical guardrails.