Heart and lung bypass machines have been around for more than 50 years. For much of that time they were used primarily to help patients survive while they waited for an organ transplant. But in the ...

Assisted dying is like turning off a life support machine, the MP behind a Bill to legalise the practice has said. Kim Leadbeater said deciding whether to allow a terminally ill person to kill ...

Family members are outraged after learning that their loved one was removed from life support at a Washington hospital - two years after he was killed in a medical mix-up. Now, the heartbroken family ...

David Wells died after he was taken off life support because he was misidentified as Michael Beehler Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

A hospital patient died after being taken off life support when staff mistakenly asked the wrong family if they wanted to pull the plug, according to a lawsuit. David Wells was unconscious and not ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center is facing a civil lawsuit after allowing a Vancouver family to pull the plug on the wrong man in a terrible case of mistaken identity. In a ...

Emergency Medical Services in Clinton County says they are the first EMS agency in the nation to use a new technology a voice ...

A small modeling study suggests that some patients with severe traumatic brain injury may have recovered had they been kept on life support for longer. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Like Truog and Morrison, Starke’s team emphasized that “human surrogates will remain essential sources for the contextual ...