The cases of two young women -- a California teen and a pregnant Texas mother -- have generated sympathy for their families, but also have left some doctors and bioethicists upset about their ...

Brain stem is that part of the brain that connects the spinal cord with the “main” brain and contains areas that control ...

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

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 ...

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

NEW YORK CITY -- Groundbreaking surgery by doctors at NYU Langone successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney and thymus into the body of a man who is brain dead. NYU Langone says it is a big ...

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people ...

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 ...

Brain dead. The two words are ominous, frightening, final. And often so misunderstood. As a medical diagnosis, brain death is relatively straightforward, determined by standardized tests widely ...

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