Adriana Smith was declared brain dead in February, but kept alive to deliver her baby in June due to Georgia’s strict ban on ...
The baby born to a brain-dead Georgia woman who was put on life support to comply with state’s strict anti-abortion laws ...
Adriana Smith's pregnancy made national headlines when she was declared brain dead but placed on life support to let her ...
Surat: Organs of four brain-dead individuals were donated on Monday, resulting in 14 organs being harvested and giving new ...
In a step toward increasing access to donor organs, scientists have converted a blood-type-A kidney to blood type O and then transplanted it into a brain-dead person. The kidney, which had essentially ...
New experiments raise important questions about what it means to die. n December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked ...
Anoxic brain injury is happens when your brain does not get oxygen. It is a serious often life threatening medical event with ...
Japan's organ donation numbers remain low, compared to other countries. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...
Scientists have successfully stopped a pig kidney from being rejected by its human recipient. The organ survived for 61 days in the recipient, a 57-year-old brain-dead man in the United States, the ...
In the old days, a person was considered dead when the heart stopped. Then, in 1968, a group of Harvard professors decided that people could also be considered dead when the brain stopped. Now, three ...