"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." About five years ago, Yale School of Medicine neuroscientist Zvonimir Vrselja, Ph.D., and his colleagues ...

An Atlanta hospital is keeping a brain-dead woman alive because she is pregnant, according to her family. Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old registered nurse at Emory University Hospital, experienced severe ...

Yale School of Medicine researchers led by Dr. Zvonimir Vrselja have transformed our understanding of brain death through an innovative experiment involving pig brains. Their work challenges long-held ...

We’ve always thought of death, especially brain death, as a hard line. Once it happens, that’s it, right? But some new, really interesting research is making scientists rethink that. They’ve been ...

In May and June 2025, a rumor circulated online that a brain-dead woman in Georgia was kept alive artificially against her family's wishes to allow her pregnancy to reach a term at which the baby ...

A pregnant Georgia woman who was declared brain dead following a medical emergency in February must be kept on life support until her baby is born due the state’s strict anti-abortion laws. Adriana ...

A prominent recent case involved a 23-year-old Jamaican woman who admitted herself to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for elective surgery on July 30, 2024. In February, Amber Ebanks, a ...

The way Jahi McMath's mom takes care of her will warm your heart. — -- Nailah Winkfield said she will never forget giving her teenage daughter permission to die as she lay motionless and on a ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her ...