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 ...

ATLANTA -- Adriana Smith, a 31-year-old Georgia nurse and mother, was just eight weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead in February after suffering a medical condition. However, the family ...

A small modeling study suggests that some patients with severe traumatic brain injury may have recovered had they been kept on life support for longer. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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 ...

Asystole is the most serious form of cardiac arrest. It happens when the heart stops beating and there is no more electrical activity. It is sometimes called "flat-line" or "flat-lining" because the ...

Gardy Coriolan, a security officer at Mercy Hospital, remains on life support nearly two months after a patient attacked him. His wife, Sonya Coriolan, says her husband’s condition has not approved ...

Please keep my sweet girl in your prayers. This next week is a scary time as we see what her next option will be.” ...

A Texas judge orders hospital to keep a 9-year-old cancer patient alive. The desperate parents of a 9-year-old cancer-stricken girl are waging a court fight to prevent Texas doctors from removing ...

The family of a brain-dead woman in Georgia who has been kept on life support for four months because she was pregnant is preparing their goodbyes after she delivered a baby boy. Adriana Smith’s ...

A terminally ill baby in England is set to be removed from life support on Thursday following a judge’s ruling, despite the pleading of her parents to allow a Vatican children’s hospital to treat the ...