For decades, brain death has been an important but problematic factor for determining death. Is it time for a new approach?

The Precision Brain Health Research Act of 2025 seeks to identify and research the long-term effects of low-level blast ...

As cases move through the courts, more scrutiny of “good faith” and “due diligence” in consent contexts and negligence in ...

Several days after a drug overdose, Kentuckian TJ Hoover was declared brain dead. Doctors prepared him for organ removal surgery, and as the procedure was about to begin, Hoover woke up.

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis couple is behind bars and charged with beating their 3-year-old daughter nearly to death. According to doctors at Riley Hospital for Children, the 3-year-old vi… ...

HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. cracks down on organ removal from “brain dead” patients. AnneMarie Schieber and Devon Herrick break down this and other major health care headlines from a free-market ...

A Georgia woman declared brain-dead and kept on life support for more than three months because she was pregnant was removed from a ventilator in June and died, days after doctors delivered her 1 ...

Brain death is rare, though. In New York State, with a population of 20 million, there are on average fewer than 500 cases suitable for organ procurement and transplantation each year.

The family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr is speaking out about the child's recent death from a brain-eating amoeba in an effort to raise public awareness of the often fatal brain infection caused by ...

A Pennsylvania couple has filed a lawsuit claiming a funeral home accidentally gave them their son’s brain matter.