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 ...
CT perfusion and angiography failed to meet sensitivity and specificity thresholds to determine brain death. Neither should be used as standalone tests to establish death by neurologic criteria, the ...
Analysis of human brain tissue revealed differences in how immune cells behave in brains with Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy brains, indicating a potential new treatment target. University of ...
News outlets have been reporting the story of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old pregnant woman diagnosed as brain dead in February 2025 when she was nine weeks pregnant. According to reports, Smith had ...