Cognitive decline, a decrease in the brain's ability to do tasks and comprehend, has been linked to heart failure.

In the half-century history of clinical practice of diagnosing brain death, informed consent has seldom been considered until very recently. Like many other medical diagnoses and ordinary death ...

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 ...

Someone who has brainstem death cannot have any form of bodily response; it is mostly their heart that is beating.

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

In cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the patient has lost all vital brain functions, particularly ...

Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of heart disease-related death, but deaths from heart disease have still been responsible for more U.S. fatalities than any other cause, a new American ...

Brain dead US woman kept alive for child birth taken off life support. Newborn weighs under a kilo Adriana Smith's newborn baby, Chance, alarmingly, weighs under a kilo and remains in the neonatal ...

A brain-dead pregnant Black woman, who was kept alive due to local abortion restrictions in the US state of Georgia, was removed from life support after she gave birth to a boy. According to officials ...

News US News Abortion Brain dead pregnant woman's family issue tragic update after baby cut out of her lifeless body The case of Adriana Smith sparked controversy around the world after the ...

The use of donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors for heart transplantation (HT) is increasing in the United States. Whether sex differences exist in DCD HT utilization and outcomes is unknown.

Adriana Smith’s funeral is set for June 28. The Georgia mother’s case drew national attention after she remained on life support while pregnant.