Dr. Nisha Varadarajan had spent twenty-seven years as an emergency physician in Chennai, standing at the fragile border between life and death. Over the years she had pronounced strangers gone, told ...

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 ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

New neuroscience is challenging our understanding of the dying process—bringing opportunities for the living. The Biggest Questions is a mini-series that explores how technology is helping probe some ...

A report claiming that a 50-year-old woman from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh was "revived by a pothole" after being declared brain-dead has gone viral, sparking widespread confusion about what brain ...

Kheirbek is a professor of medicine and the inaugural division head of gerontology, geriatrics, and palliative medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Bullets tore through Michael ...

A researcher analyzed papers from more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and found that signs of consciousness persist long after patients are technically declared dead. The findings suggest that death ...