The majority of health care professionals involved in testing for brain stem death believe that allowing relatives to be present during testing may help them to understand that death has occurred and ...

When the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord becomes damaged, a number of debilitating conditions can result that limit mobility, inhibit independence and reduce ...

Breakthrough stem cell therapy reverses Parkinson’s in Chinese patient - Participant’s Parkinson’s score dropped to value ...

As a neurologist who specializes in critical care, I believe we need a clearer, more consistent legal definition of death. The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), the legal standard for death ...

A prominent recent case involved a 23-year-old Jamaican woman who admitted herself to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for elective surgery on July 30, 2024. In February, Amber Ebanks, a ...

Bilal Arshadullah is a biology major and biotechnology minor and a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. In 2013, ...

Anoxic brain injury is happens when your brain does not get oxygen. It is a serious often life threatening medical event with ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr Lucas Elijovich. Lucas is a colleague of ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

New biotech allows ‘seeds’ planted in the brain to differentiate into new nerve cells, reshaping its neural network.