Adriana Smith was declared brain dead while nine weeks pregnant.

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 ...

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 ...

What is Basic Life Support (BLS)? Ever wondered what you'd do in a life-or-death situation? Basic Life Support (BLS) is like your emergency toolkit for those critical moments. It's a set of skills ...

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 ...

Charlie Gard, the 11-month-old English boy with fatal mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, is at the center of an international debate about who has the right to turn off a patient’s life support ...

A patient's inability to pay for medical care combined with a prognosis that renders further care futile are two reasons a hospital might suggest cutting off life support, the chief medical officer at ...

Hospital wants to take girl off life support after tonsillectomy went wrong. Dec. 22, 2013— -- The mother of a Oakland, Calif., girl who was declared brain dead after what should have been a ...

Mobile Life Support Services founder, owner and board chair Gayle Metzger-Hauser told employees in a radio broadcast to them at midnight Tuesday and in a Facebook post a short time later that the ...