A single word clarification is the only revision the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) needs, the American College of Physicians (ACP) stated. In a new position paper, the ACP joined the ...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued a new position paper on determination of death that includes a clarification to the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), but otherwise ...

Despite what you may have seen on TV, a diagnosis of brain death isn't an easy thing to give, and actually requires a lot of reflexes to be checked.

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 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and a key Catholic bioethics group are both warning of a potential rewriting of U.S. law to broaden the definition of brain death, a revision ...

As a neurologist who specializes in critical care, I believe we need a clearer, more consistent legal definition of death. The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), the legal standard for death ...

New guidance has been issued for clinicians on the determination of brain death, also known as death by neurologic criteria. A new consensus practice guideline, developed through a collaboration ...

A new practice guideline updated clinicians on how they should determine death by neurologic criteria -- also known as brain death -- in adults and children. "The new guideline is the first to combine ...

Dead in California but alive in New Jersey: that was the status of 13-year-old Jahi McMath after physicians in Oakland, California, declared her brain dead in 2013, after complications from a ...