Aruna's Keepers

On November 27, 2010, Aruna Shanbag, a former employee of KEM Hospital, Mumbai, completed 37 years as its ‘baby’. This is the story of the nurses and doctors at KEM who have taken care of one of their own ever since that fateful evening of 27 November 1973 when Aruna was...

Brain dead woman gives birth to baby

A woman who was pronounced brain dead has giving birth to a baby girl. Jayne Soliman, 41 collapsed suddenly at home. She was airlifted to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital where doctors managed to keep her heart beating long enough to deliver her baby. She was delivered two...

15 yr old boy declared brain dead after school shooting

An unfortuante development in what is already a very sad story:"A 15-year-old shot by a fellow student at his junior high school has been declared brain dead, and his body is being maintained on a ventilator for possible organ donation, according to the medical examiner's...

Inside Stricken Mother, a Race Between Life and Death

Since his wife's brain stopped functioning weeks ago, since she was hooked to a ventilator and her cancer began spreading down to her neck, to her back and to the lymph nodes under her arms, Jason Torres said he's noticed relatively little physical change except one: Her...

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