Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Vegetative' was first used in 1972 to label patients demonstrating 'arousal in the absence of awareness' - Witthaya ...

IN JULY 2005, a 23-year-old British woman was involved in a horrific road accident. She was taken to hospital in a deep coma with a serious head injury. After an operation to relieve the pressure on ...

Birch is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and author of “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” A stroke, a traumatic brain injury — ...

When the woman went into labor a few days after Christmas, her caretakers were flummoxed. She’d been in a persistent vegetative state for nearly a decade after a near-drowning. She received ...

Terri Schiavo was a Florida woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years. Her husband claimed she did not want to live on life support; her family disagreed, and their battle reached ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The case of Terri Schiavo captured the attention of the nation and the world in the early 2000s. In 1990, a heart attack left the 26-year-old woman in what doctors described as a ...

The Delhi High Court has granted permission for an Army soldier in a persistent vegetative state to continue with IVF treatment, affirming his prior consent and his wife's fundamental right to ...

The Delhi High Court permitted the extraction and cryopreservation of sperm of an Indian Army soldier in a persistent vegetative state, holding that his prior consent to undergo IVF treatment with his ...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has appointed a wife (petitioner 1) as the legal guardian of her husband— who had been in a ...

The brain is the final frontier. As I asked last week, have researchers even discovered the full anatomical structure and physiology of the brain? As one clinical psychologist told me, innovators are ...