All Stories: Brain-Dead

LISBON: A healthy baby was born in Portugal on Tuesday to a mother who had been brain-dead for nearly four months.

WARSAW: A brain-dead Polish woman was kept alive for 55 days so that she could give birth, a hospital official said Tuesday, adding that the premature baby showed no signs of serious complications.

RENNES, FRANCE: One person has been left brain-dead and three others face possibly irreversible brain damage after they took an experimental drug administered to 90 people in France, Health Minister Marisol Touraine and a neurologist said Friday.