Many patients who died after traumatic brain injuries may have survived and recovered if their families had waited to take them off life support, a new study found. Researchers from Massachusetts ...

The parents of a 1-year-old who was in a coma for three months were told their son's life support would be terminated ...

THE BRONX -- The fight for Amber Ebanks' life is now in civil court in the Bronx, where questions about the standard for declaring a patient brain dead are at the center of what happens to her next.

All but two states have specific language supporting unilateral clinician decision-making for initiating or maintaining life-sustaining treatment (LST). Requirements, justifications, and oversight ...

Deciding whether to withdraw life support after a severe traumatic brain injury is extremely difficult. Loved ones are faced with balancing their hopes for recovery with the desire not to prolong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center is being sued after alleged patient mix-up that resulted in life support being pulled from ...

A pregnant woman who has been brain dead since February — and kept alive via life support in order to comply with Georgia’s abortion law — gave birth prematurely to a baby boy, ending the months-long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harish Rana before his accident. In 2013, Rana, then an engineering student, fell from a fourth-floor balcony and suffered serious ...