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 ...

THE BRONX -- The fight for Amber Ebanks' life is now in civil court in the Bronx, where questions about the standard for declaring a patient brain dead are at the center of what happens to her next.

Family members are outraged after learning that their loved one was removed from life support at a Washington hospital - two years after he was killed in a medical mix-up. Now, the heartbroken family ...

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 ...

A brain-dead Georgia woman has been taken off life support after an emergency cesarian section was performed to deliver her premature baby last week. The family of Adriana Smith, 31, announced her ...

LITHONIA, Ga. — A Georgia family said their final goodbyes Saturday to Adriana Monet Smith, the young nurse and mother who was kept on life support for months to deliver her unborn child. Smith, who ...