Who gets counted as a COVID-19 death has been questioned for months, with no formal definition in place nationwide as officials adapt to a new disease’s destructive impact. Conspiracy theories have ...

Two years to the day that the Bay State’s COVID-19 state of emergency started, health officials announced that the state’s overall COVID death count is dropping by nearly 4,000 deaths. That’s because ...

After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling for much-needed reforms to ...

Our definition of death is changing. Until the concept of brain death was realised in the 20th century, death was primarily presumed upon the absence of a pulse and breathing. Prior methods for ...

BOSTON (CBS) – The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Massachusetts will decrease by 3,700 after the state adjusted its definition of what classifies as a death caused by the disease.

On Jan. 25, 12-year-old Haley Pollman of Salem lost her fight with Batten disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder. A few days earlier, at Randall Children’s Hospital in Portland, her family had ...

After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling for much-needed reforms to ...

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