A vegetative state is a disorder of consciousness or an altered consciousness. It is caused by severe brain damage. Someone in a persistent vegetative state may look like they’re awake, ...

For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science ...

Nearly four decades after a catastrophic car accident left 17-year-old Ian Berg with a severe brain injury, new science has ...

The family of a Royal Mail driver who was left in a “vegetative state” after he was mowed down by a 7.5 tonne lorry have ...

A man in a permanent vegetative state reportedly has been able to communicate that he is not in pain, leading doctors to believe that the previously-held notion that people like him have no ...

Patients in a vegetative state are awake, breathe on their own, and seem to go in and out of sleep. But they do not respond to what is happening around them and exhibit no signs of conscious ...

A Los Angeles judge has ruled that a spouse in California is the presumptive healthcare decision maker when the partner is in a persistent vegetative state. Ruling in the case of a San Gabriel ...

What should this mean for clinical practice? A task force in 2010 recommended replacing the term “vegetative state” with “unresponsive wakefulness syndrome.” The American Academy of ...

News of a woman in a vegetative state for more than a decade giving birth to a boy on December 29 has stirred emotions nationwide. The rare medical event raises many questions, including ...

The disturbing case of an Arizona woman who gave birth despite being in a vegetative state for more than a decade is not the first of its kind, experts told NBC News. The woman, 29, delivered in ...