Always hungry for more organs, transplant surgeons are exploiting — and illuminating — the different standards for determining death
Are you familiar with something called the “partial resurrection” procedure? That’s how MedPage Today referred to it in a recent article. You might suppose it...
UK could revise standards for infant brain death after Baby A experience
Never simple, brain death in UK babies is being reviewed after a 3-month-old baby was declared “brain dead” due to “irreversible cessation of brain stem...
When did Hollywood actress Anne Heche really die?
After a fiery car crash on August 5, Anne Heche, a Hollywood actress who starred in TV shows and films over 30 years, died on...
Back from the dead?
Unsettling accounts of dead people who aren’t dead continue to make headlines. On August 17, in the Mexican town of Salinas, a 3-year-old girl named...
Once again, UK lawyers duel over ‘brain dead’ youngster
The United Kingdom is once again debating brain death. In recent years there have been several high-profile disputes between parents who want to keep their...