A new state law in Texas that extends the notification period for hospitals to tell families that their loved ones will be taken off of life support will go into effect on Friday. The new law, which ...

Community Medical Center Long Beach (Calif.), which is slated to close within the next four months, has stopped accepting emergency room patients receiving advanced life support care form paramedics, ...

Analysis of 1,392 patients with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) found that some patients for whom life support was withdrawn may have survived and recovered some level of independence a few months ...

A Texas judge orders hospital to keep a 9-year-old cancer patient alive. The desperate parents of a 9-year-old cancer-stricken girl are waging a court fight to prevent Texas doctors from removing ...

Controversy is growing in Georgia over the case of a woman declared brain dead who is being kept on life support because she is pregnant. Hospital officials say it's because of Georgia's abortion law.

Associate Professor Janet Bray receives funding from a Heart Foundation of Australia Fellowship, and grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Resuscitation ...

Her condition, which included multiple blood clots, deteriorated as doctors tried to save her life, Smith's mother April Newkirk told Atlanta TV station WXIA. This story was produced in partnership ...

Rela Hospital in Chennai has successfully saved the life of a critically ill patient who suffered a massive pulmonary embolism, a dangerous blood clot that had travelled from the leg to the lungs, by ...