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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Georgia Attorney General's Office told ABC News that "there is nothing in the Life Act that requires medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Mrs. Munoz is dead," the judge ruled. Erick Munoz stands with an undated photograph of himself, left, with wife Marlise and their son Mateo, in Haltom City, Texas. Ron T. Ennis/The Fort Worth ...

Zei Uwadia, a teenage girl who defied expectations by walking while on life support, has died, according to a Facebook post by her mother. The teen had returned home from Children’s Mercy Hospital in ...