Medical science has pushed the boundary of survival so far that the moment of death no longer looks like a clean line.
In the end, the task force decided that a person could be declared dead when they had “sustained either irreversible ...
A Maine family recently received an official-looking letter from their hospital that seemed routine at first glance. But when ...
In the old days, a person was considered dead when the heart stopped. Then, in 1968, a group of Harvard professors decided that people could also be considered dead when the brain stopped. Now, three ...
THE NHS paid out a record high £123million to families of patients who died after blunders by doctors and nurses last year.
Richard Miron, 83, ranked as the largest provider of “high dose, short acting oxycodone prescriptions” among all MassHealth ...
In a shocking incident at Mumbai's Cooper Government Hospital on Friday, relatives of a deceased patient attacked doctors in the emergency ward.
Yamen Al-Najjar recalls his past life – the days when he went to school and laughed regularly. Today, the 16-year-old lives ...