But they actually reveal a much deeper and pervasive lack of understanding about what happens in that liminal space between the declaration of brain death and when a heart stops beating.

Dead but alive. That was the status of Kenyan mask-vendor Boniface Kariuki, whom doctors declared brain dead last week. Kariuki spent nearly two weeks on a life-support machine, before his family was ...

Anne Heche has been declared brain dead after her car crash. She's been matched with an organ recipient and will be removed from life support Sunday.

A street vendor shot in the head by police during protests about two weeks ago has been declared brain dead in hospital, his ...

Researchers say they have been able to tap a new pool of organ donors to preserve and transplant their hearts: people whose hearts have stopped beating, resulting in so-called circulatory death.

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A street vendor shot in the head by police during protests about two weeks ago has been declared brain dead in hospital, his family has said. Boniface Kariuki's family said medics had informed them ...

“Survival without brain function is impossible. In cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the patient has lost all vital brain functions, particularly in the brain stem, and this ...

The major breakthrough is that the donor heart—which came from a 35-year-old male who experienced brain death after complications during cerebellar tumor surgery—never experienced cardioplegia ...