“Persistent vegetative state” should not be used as a term for patients because it is offensive and dehumanising, a high ...

A 15-year-old boy has been left in a vegetative state after doing a “show-off” backflip off a pier while on his first trip to a beach without his parents. Jack Dolan landed on his head after ...

Researchers are identifying distinctive brain activity patterns that can be used to monitor patients under anesthesia and assess consciousness in “vegetative” patients. NIH’s plan to reduce indirect ...

A new podcast details the terrifying experience of a Bostonian who spent more than nine months completely coherent but trapped in what doctors believed to be a vegetative state. He could hear and ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The 35-year-old patient had been in a vegetative state, asleep most of the time or unresponsive to his surroundings, since he was injured in a ...

Patients described as being in the vegetative state fail to show behavioral signs of awareness including visual pursuit, following commands, or localization to pain. Recent work has demonstrated ...

SINGAPORE – After consuming copious amounts of alcohol, a man drove his white Lexus and was speeding near the Tuas Checkpoint ...