The Supreme Court is hearing a plea alleging malpractices in brain death certification to facilitate 'organ harvesting'. Here's a look at how doctors declare a person brain dead and why the certificat ...

Avoiding “silent brain death” has the potential to cut costs and improve quality of care, according to an article published in Critical Care Nurse. The article’s author contends nurses, who are often ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editors’ note: In the June 2024 issue, America published an article called “Dividing the Church on Brain Death.” Dr. Jason T. Eberl and his coauthors argued that current neurological criteria for ...