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It usually doesn’t take a doctor for one to tell if someone is in coma or not because the signs of unconsciousness and unresponsiveness are quite clear and therefore, it can be said that coma is a ...

Thousands of patients remain trapped in a vegetative state between life and death. Three scientists are working to free them, as Roger Highfield reports. “Imagine you wake up, locked inside a box,” ...

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Catholic hospitals in the United States are deliberating whether to uphold Pope John Paul II’s latest teaching on treatment offered to patients who are in a persistent vegetative state. Last month, ...

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra on Monday said a terminally-ill patient or a person in persistent vegetative state should not be made an “experimental object” ...

The law should allow families of loved ones in a persistent vegetative state, and their doctors, to withdraw artificial nutrition in a "timely and agreed" manner, the High Court has been told. When ...

Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains "persistent vegetative state" — the term doctors have used to describe Terri Schiavo's condition. The Florida woman suffered severe brain damage a decade ago, ...

Bochum’s medics have succeeded in treating cerebral palsy with autologous cord blood. Following a cardiac arrest with severe brain damage, a 2.5 year old boy had been in a persistent vegetative state ...

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A persistent vegetative state patient who met with an accident was airlifted from a Bell- 412 helicopter of Sri Lanka Air Force from Badulla General Hospital to Colombo National Hospital today to ...