Brain death is a medical diagnosis and a legal declaration of death, said study author Dr. David Greer, professor and chair of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine.

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 ...

A person who is brain dead may appear alive – there may be a heartbeat, they may look like they’re breathing, their skin may still be warm to the touch. But doctors say there is no life when ...

When a person is dead, life support has to end since regardless of what parents, judges or legislators might want to believe, no physician can do anything to treat death. When doctors say ‘brain ...

Today, although brain death makes up just 2% of adult deaths and 5% of childhood deaths in hospitals in the United States, it tends to garner outsized attention from the media and in the law.

Brain Death, Experimentation, and Consent. We generally continue to reject the idea of the commodification of the human body. However, brain death, recognized as death in all 50 states, transforms ...

Sadly, no: Brain death is permanent. And based on a U.S. law on the books since 1981, it is considered a true death, just as final as death when the heart stops.. Until the 1950s, the distinction ...

Bioethicists, doctors and lawyers are weighing whether to redefine how someone should be declared dead. A change in criteria for brain death could have wide-ranging implications for patients' care.

A brain-dead person also cannot maintain his or her own body temperature, so the body is kept warm with blankets, a high room temperature and, sometimes, warm IV fluids, Greene-Chandos said.

A flair of energy in the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, according to an expert.

Adriana Smith, who was 10 weeks pregnant in February when she was declared brain dead, was kept alive due to Georgia’s strict ban on abortion. After nearly four months on life support, Smith ...

A view shows a sign outside of the Emory University Hospital, where Adriana Smith, a woman who was about nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain-dead, has been kept on life-support since ...