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 ...

When the 29-year-old patient at the Hacienda Skilled Nursing Facility in Phoenix gave birth to a baby boy in December, local reports said she was in a vegetative state after a near-drowning.

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 ...

Others don’t. What I’m referring to here is the plight of a subset of people diagnosed with a condition known as persistent vegetative state who are actually trapped in this way. Over the past ...

Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a woman in a vegetative state unexpectedly gave birth at Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, police scrambled to figure out what must have been the sexual assault that preceded it. On Wednesday ...