India's brain death definition: Supreme Court reopens debate on medical protocols

A Supreme Court order has reignited the debate on defining brainstem death, prompting calls for scientific guidance. While ...

In the U.S., scientists are keeping human brains “alive” outside the body to test drugs for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and it’s reigniting the debate nobody wants ...

Scientists are using postmortem human brains to test new drugs. Discover how this breakthrough is changing medicine and ...
Futurism

Startup Testing Drugs on Freshly Extracted Human Brains That Are Kept On Life Support

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Houston family seeks more time for toddler hospitalized after Memorial Day drowning incident

A Houston-area family is seeking more time for their 2-year-old daughter, Annelise Camp, after a Memorial Day drowning ...
AOL

Kansas mom's story reveals flaws in hospital brain death testing

It was Dec. 9, 2024, when my 22-year-old son put a loaded 9mm to his head and pulled the trigger twice. Paramedics said that his heartbeat was strong, but it did not look good, and as a retired ...
Long Island Press

Farmingdale mother sues NUMC, says son is still alive

A Nassau County Supreme Court judge granted an emergency order that temporarily blocked Nassau University Medical Center from conducting brain death testing on Anthony Gestone, a 23-year-old ...
Medical Xpress

New ALS treatment target identified: STAUFEN-1 protein reduction protects brain cells from death

University of Utah researchers at the Pulst-Scoles Laboratory have discovered that reducing levels of the STAUFEN-1 protein can prevent neuron death caused by DNA damage and p53 activation in ...