Analysis of human brain tissue revealed differences in how immune cells behave in brains with Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy brains, indicating a potential new treatment target. University of ...

You'd think after seeing hundreds of bodies, nothing would surprise people who do autopsies for a living — but sometimes, even they're left stunned. Recently, u/atro_bella asked, "People who perform ...

Yale School of Medicine researchers led by Dr. Zvonimir Vrselja have transformed our understanding of brain death through an innovative experiment involving pig brains. Their work challenges long-held ...

Editors’ note: In the June 2024 issue, America published an article called “Dividing the Church on Brain Death.” Dr. Jason T. Eberl and his coauthors argued that current neurological criteria for ...

MEMPHIS, Tennessee -- The medical examiner's official autopsy report for Tyre Nichols showed he "died of brain injuries from blunt force trauma," the district attorney's office told Nichols' family ...

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 ...

Humans have yearned for immortality for as long as we‘ve understood our fragile permanence. But while dodging the Grim Reaper was once relegated to the realm of religious myth, now technology is ...

CT perfusion and angiography failed to meet sensitivity and specificity thresholds to determine brain death. Neither should be used as standalone tests to establish death by neurologic criteria, the ...

Scientists have revealed that immune cells in Alzheimer's brains behave differently from those in brains of people without the disease – a discovery that could lead to new treatments. Published in ...