Within weeks, she opened her eyes and began sleep-wake cycles -- typical of patients in a vegetative state -- but she showed no sign of awareness or ability to respond to her environment. A persistent ...

Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose husband and parents are battling over whether to let her die or keep her alive, exists in the rare and paradoxical "persistent vegetative state," ...

PHILADELPHIA — For two decades, car-crash victim Rom Houben lay paralyzed and voiceless in what his doctors thought was a vegetative state. He appeared to be awake, but showed no signs of awareness.

CAMBRIDGE, England — When a Belgian-British research team began to suspect that many brain-damaged patients are misdiagnosed by medical practitioners, they used brain scans to establish two-way ...

(RNS) — In the 15 years since Terri Schiavo died, changes in medical research and technology give us reason to totally rethink fundamental questions about patients thought to be 'vegetative.' (RNS) — ...

A second doctor has resigned as Hacienda HealthCare and police both investigate the sexual assault that preceded the Dec. 29 birth Two doctors responsible for the care of a woman in a long-term ...

Police served a search warrant Tuesday to get DNA from all male employees at a long-term care facility in Phoenix where a patient who had been in a vegetative state for years gave birth, triggering ...