Laws such as Georgia's LIFE Act can complicate ethical and legal decision-making in postmortem pregnancy. Darya Komarova/Moment via Getty Images Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had ...

Anoxic brain injury is happens when your brain does not get oxygen. It is a serious often life threatening medical event with ...

ATLANTA — Adriana Smith, a metro Atlanta nurse who was declared brain dead in February while pregnant, has been taken off of life support, according to her mother. April Newkirk, Smith's mom, told ...

Diverse team of doctors consult on a TV screen showing MRI scan with brain images. [iStock Photos] A person declared brain-dead does not recover or wake up—they eventually die, according to medical ...

Adriana Smith, a brain-dead Atlanta woman kept alive under Georgia anti-abortion laws, gave birth on June 13 and will be taken off life support Tuesday, her family said. Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of Popular Mechanics’ greatest stories. It was initially published in December 2022. On December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked in to Oakland Children’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body functioning well enough to ...

(The Conversation) — Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture the ethical complexities of such situations. (The ...