LARGO, Fla. – An autopsy on Theresa Schiavo backed her husband’s contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the ...

Since his February 2023 arrest, Tony Garcia was attacked four times by other inmates. The final attack left him comatose, and he died seven months later. Garcia was awaiting trial for the the 1981 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, ...

A 12-page autopsy report released Nov. 3 indicates that double-murder defendant Tony Garcia suffered previous brain trauma that contributed to the severity of his condition after he was attacked a ...