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 ...

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 ...

Baby Evelyn, missing most of her brain when she was born, was on life- support systems Sunday at Loma Linda University Medical Center while doctors waited to see if her organs might be transplanted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.