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 ...

Even in cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the person has lost all vital brain functions, particularly in the brain stem.

Brain death in pregnancy is rare. Even rarer still are cases in which doctors aim to prolong the pregnancy after a woman is declared brain-dead.

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.

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 ...

A young woman in Sudbury became the third person in Canada, and first from northern Ontario, to donate her heart using new heart-in-a-box technology that keeps the organ beating for hours while it ...

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.