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This past week in healthcare investigations

After Brittany O’Connor was declared brain dead, her father clashed with medical authorities. The battle shines a light on America’s legal definition of death – and the thousands waiting for organ donation

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 the legal definition of death in the United States.

<p>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 the legal definition of death in the United States. The recently announced pause by the Uniform Law Commission, which is spearheading revisions, is disappointing, the expert notes, but should not permanently stall practical fixes to longstanding problems with the Death Act.</p>

/PRNewswire/ -- After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a...

New guidelines on determining brain death released today offer the first updated recommendations in more than a decade for adult and pediatric patients.

New recommendations address hypothermia, ECMO, pregnancy

The American College of Physicians revisited the Uniform Determination of Death Act and revised only the determination of cardiorespiratory death standard.

American College of Physicians adds to debate about redefining death

The circumstances of Maya Bhatias death are not clear at this point.