New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

The New York Times Magazine explores how a growing body of research is upending what doctors thought they knew about people ...

Let’s say something bad happens — a crash, a fall, a stroke, an overdose. Your brain absorbs a violent shock or a period ...

A car accident at 20 years old left a French man in a vegetative state for 15 years. But after neurosurgeons implanted a vagus nerve stimulator in his chest, the man, now 35, is showing signs of ...

PHOENIX (KPNX) — The woman who gave birth at Hacienda Healthcare in Phoenix is not in a vegetative state or comatose, according to her family’s lawyer. John Micheaels, the attorney representing the ...