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 ...

All but two states have specific language supporting unilateral clinician decision-making for initiating or maintaining life-sustaining treatment (LST). Requirements, justifications, and oversight ...

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 ...

When someone sustains a serious brain injury and is unresponsive, how soon can doctors say whether he or she has a chance of meaningful recovery? That has always been a difficult question to answer, ...

GEORGIA (WALB) – A Georgia woman who was declared brain dead during her pregnancy was kept on life support for months so her unborn child could be delivered — a decision that has raised new questions ...

(The Conversation) — Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture the ethical complexities of such situations. (The ...