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 ...
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Bold claim says science may be able to reverse death
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 ...
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 ...
Re “We Need a New Definition of Death,” by Sandeep Jauhar, Snehal Patel and Deane Smith (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 1): As a physician and a neuroethicist who has argued for the rights of people with a ...
After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling for much-needed reforms to ...
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