A 12-year-old New York boy with brain cancer has died after his family battled a hospital to keep him on a ventilator. The lawyer for the Orthodox Jewish family says Motl Brody's bodily functions ceased Saturday. A machine had continued to work his lungs after ...

A Washington judge offered no final decision on Monday in the legal battle between a hospital that wants to take a "brain-dead" child off life support and his Orthodox Jewish parents who say their religion considers the boy still alive. The superior court judge in the US capital instead scheduled another hearing for Thursday. Postponing the proceedings allows the family ...

The Orthodox Jewish parents of a boy whom doctors have ruled "brain-dead" are fighting in court to keep him on life support, arguing that their religion considers him still alive. Doctors at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington want to end treatment for Motl Brody, 12, whom they declared deceased Wednesday after brain cancer left him with no ...