Brain death is a medical diagnosis and a legal declaration of death, said study author Dr. David Greer, professor and chair of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine.

When a person is dead, life support has to end since regardless of what parents, judges or legislators might want to believe, no physician can do anything to treat death. When doctors say ‘brain ...

Today, although brain death makes up just 2% of adult deaths and 5% of childhood deaths in hospitals in the United States, it tends to garner outsized attention from the media and in the law.

A view shows a sign outside of the Emory University Hospital, where Adriana Smith, a woman who was about nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain-dead, has been kept on life-support since ...

Diverse team of doctors consult on a TV screen showing MRI scan with brain images. [iStock Photos] A person declared brain-dead does not recover or wake up—they eventually die, according to ...

The baby of Adriana Smith, a brain-dead pregnant woman who was being kept alive by ventilators under Georgia’s abortion law, was delivered Friday, her family said.. Smith’s mother, April ...