Who gets counted as a COVID-19 death has been questioned for months, with no formal definition in place nationwide as officials adapt to a new disease’s destructive impact. Conspiracy theories have ...

Two years to the day that the Bay State’s COVID-19 state of emergency started, health officials announced that the state’s overall COVID death count is dropping by nearly 4,000 deaths. That’s because ...

Our definition of death is changing. Until the concept of brain death was realised in the 20th century, death was primarily presumed upon the absence of a pulse and breathing. Prior methods for ...

If you’re reading this, you know what living looks like — movement, neurological activity, thought, action. But what exactly is death? The answer is complicated, suggests neuroscientist Christof Koch.

After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling for much-needed reforms to ...

After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling for much-needed reforms to ...

In the summer of 1967, three of the four cardiac surgeons competing to perform the first human heart transplant were simultaneously just hours from their place in the history books. But each was ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Pronouncing a patient dead in a hospital ...