Parents of a 2-year-old girl involved in a drowning incident on Memorial Day have sued to stop Texas Children’s Hospital from ...

Brain death, defined as the irreversible cessation of all brain function, is both a clinical and legal determination that allows for the ethical procurement of organs for transplantation. Its ...

For decades, scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease have seen the same troubling pattern. Harmful proteins collect inside ...

Although it receives a lot of attention, brain death is relatively rare, accounting for around 2% of all adult hospital deaths in the United States. There are also misconceptions around what brain ...