Welcome to your bite-sized wrap-up. Below, we provide news summaries of what is going on in medicine, with links to the articles, opinions, studies and posts.

A pregnant woman in the US has been kept on life support for three months despite experiencing brain death because abortion laws demand a fetus with cardiac activity must be delivered.

Thirty-year-old nurse Adriana Smith was two months pregnant when her boyfriend woke to her gasping for breath after experiencing headache episodes over a period of months.

When she arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, doctors found blood clots in her brain, and she was declared brain dead on 19 February.