The family of 13-year-old Jahi McMath prompted a nationwide bioethical debate that same year when they opposed to their daughter's brain death diagnosis in California and transferred her to a New ...

A flair of energy in the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, according to an expert.

A pregnant woman in Georgia was declared brain-dead after a medical emergency and doctors have kept her on life support for three months so far to allow enough time for the baby to be born and ...

ATLANTA — The family of a 30-year-old metro Atlanta mother and nurse said she was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago — but is still being kept alive because she’s pregnant.

A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is pregnant ATLANTA -- A pregnant woman in Georgia was declared brain-dead ...

Adriana Smith has been brain dead for more than 90 days but is still being kept alive because she’s pregnant An Atlanta woman has been brain dead for more than 90 days but her family is forced ...

A CT scan revealed multiple blood clots in her brain. She was eventually declared brain dead and has since been moved to Emory Midtown. April Newkirk said her daughter, now 21 weeks pregnant ...

In “Dividing the Church on Brain Death,” which appeared in our June issue, Dr. Jason T. Eberl and others argued that current neurological criteria for determining brain death is consistent ...

A Georgia mother declared brain-dead at two months pregnant remains on life support due to the state’s heartbeat law, leaving her family without medical decision-making rights. Relatives say ...