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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 court exercised its “parens patriae” powers, a doctrine that allows constitutional courts to step in to safeguard those ...

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 ...

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, ...

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The Bombay High Court has requested the Railway Minister to consider a Rs 5 crore settlement for Nidhi Jethmalani, who has been in a persistent vegetative state since a 2017 accident involving a ...