Subjective definitions of coma emphasize the absence of inner consciousness or awareness from the perspective of the patient. Objective definitions of coma consider a certain set of external signs ...

First-person, subjective definitions of coma emphasize the absence of inner consciousness or awareness from the perspective of the patient. By contrast, third-person, objective definitions declare ...

Coma survivors have shared a range of incredible stories, often acquiring new abilities, developing new obsessions, or undergoing a complete transformation in their perception of the world. Curious?

Some comatose patients may be conscious and able to feel pain so life support should not automatically be switched off, a study suggests. Ground-breaking research has discovered that infrared ...

A patient lying in a vegetative state for over 3 years woke up after being administered a sleeping pill, given to assuage a spell of restlessness A patient lying in a vegetative state for over 3 ...

Kevin Foster, Director of the Arizona Burn Center. Even though all six patients are still intubated and in a medically induced coma, they are “all on course” to recovery and are “exactly where we want ...

The 18-year-old, who suffers from Cerebral Palsy and Scoliosis, was told there were no beds available and placed in the ...

What is your goal? GHAJAR: Physicians caring for patients with severe head injury used to think that when the person came in in a coma after severe-head injury, that the first injury, the original ...

The post comes as UnitedHealthcare is the target of public outrage because of its high denial of claims. Its 50-year-old CEO Brian Thompson was killed on December 4 in New York by accused Luigi ...

Mark McAvoy, who is terminally ill and suffers from Cerebral Palsy and Scoliosis, was told there were no beds available and ...

Activists say they're trying to stop Lehigh Valley Hospital from sending a comatose patient - who's an undocumented immigrant - back to her home country. Immigrant activists claim the woman's ...