Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics. Missteps risk either prolonging mechanical support with no prospect of ...

Death has always been one of humanity’s greatest mysteries, but a completely accidental brain scan captured something that might change how we think about our final moments. What scientists discovered ...

Laboratories that once focused on easing the final moments of life are now probing whether those moments are as final as medicine has long assumed. A wave of experiments on brains, organs, and ...