of death in the developed world are made by medical professionals who pronounce death when specific criteria are met. Two categories of legal death are...

Determination of Death Act, since enacted in 39 states. Today, both the legal and medical communities in the US use "brain death" as a legal definition of death, allowing...

stages of death of a human being have medical, biochemical and legal aspects. The term taphonomy from palaeontology applies to the fate of all kinds of remains...

death from both a medical and legal standpoint have made it difficult to create a single unifying definition. One of the challenges in defining death...

termination of pregnancy is the term usually used for later uterine evacuation. Ambiguous definitions can create concerns in the medical community. Physicians...

Cadaveric spasm Death rattle End-of-life care Euthanasia Lazarus sign Lazarus syndrome Medical definition of death Brain death Clinical death Death by natural...

Abstract: The definition of alcoholism. The Joint Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction...

best interests of the person on the receiving end." Definitions such as those offered by the House of Lords Select committee on Medical Ethics take this...

Endicott, Jean; Micoulaud Franchi, Jean-Arthur (2018). "Medical and mental disorder: Proposed definition and criteria". Annales Médico-Psychologiques, Revue...

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected, unpaid...