Discomfort grows more acute in the coming hours or days, when patients have been declared brain-dead but their hearts are still beating as a result of our medicines and machines and they are being ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 ...

Anne Heche Declared Brain Dead, Still on Life Support Following Car ... her heart is still beating and she has not been taken off of life support so that “OneLegacy can see if she is a match for ...

One street vendor wey police shoot for head during protests two weeks ago don die, one day afta dem declare am brain-dead for ...

Adriana Smith, brain dead at 30, is kept alive due to Georgia's heartbeat law while doctors attempt to keep her body functioning long enough for her unborn child. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...