With the growing success of organ transplantation in the early 1980s, organ donation from anencephalic infants became a topic for practical and ethical consideration. Criteria for brain death guided ...

The diagnosis was certain. Her fetus did not have a functioning brain. Even on the slim chance it would be born with a beating heart, the baby would die within days, or hours. It was the first ...

Eighteen months after declaring it ethically acceptable to take organs for transplant from infants who were born with only a small part of the brain but are not brain dead, the American Medical ...

The condition known as anencephaly – lacking a brain – affects about 3 pregnancies per every 10,000 in the United States. Small odds though it seems, Keri Young and her husband were unfortunate to ...

The Bishops of Brazil condemned the local Supreme Court's 8-2 vote on April 12 legalizing abortion in cases of unborn babies with anencephaly. “To legalize abortion in cases of anencephalic babies, ...

An anencephalic girl in Brazil has survived for two weeks - against all odds and medical prognosis - and has sparked a new debate in the country about the legalization of abortion in such cases.

TALLAHASSEE — Even though Broward County’s Baby Theresa was born without a brain, she was not legally dead, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision on Thursday. The unanimous decision ...

Joni Burchett’s baby never cried. She didn’t respond to sight or sound. Her temperature was never high enough to register on a thermometer. Burchett isn’t sure the baby ever felt hunger. Yet Katie ...

BELLE RIVER -- It’s “mind-blowing” to Karen Schouten-Aasen that the walnut-sized heart removed 23 years ago from her bound-to-die newborn daughter still beats within a British Columbian named Paul ...