By law, donation and transplant groups can’t participate in the decision to end life support, and they’re not in the room ...

Brain activity has been detected up to an hour after cardiac arrest, challenging long-held beliefs about when death truly ...

What happens to the human brain and body after death has remained a long-standing question. It’s intriguing to think about all the various functions of our body that ceases to operate while the heart ...

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

Recent advancements in organ procurement techniques to improve the quality of donated organs have given rise to normothermic regional perfusion (NRP), a procedure that restores blood flow to organs in ...

Death has always puzzled humans. We know the body slows, breathing changes, heartbeat weakens, limbs cool. But what does the brain do in those final moments? Recent scientific studies give us insight ...

Lizzie McGuire's Robert Carradine's cause of death was listed as 'sequelae of anoxic brain injury' after a battle with Bipolar Disorder ...