A Georgia mother was heartbroken when her daughter was declared brain dead, only to find herself in what she described as "a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The baby of Adriana Smith, a Georgia woman whose body was kept on life support for months so her son could be born, is still ...

Some patients whose life support ended after bleeding in the brain might have recovered some acceptable function if life support was continued. Greater patience and less pessimism may be needed, ...

Hi, I’m Lori Hain, LMSW — and I’m not here to sugarcoat your pain. If you’ve been through hell and back—whether from trauma, loss, addiction, or years of holding it all together on the outside while ...

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 ...

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 ...