New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Vegetative' was first used in 1972 to label patients demonstrating 'arousal in the absence of awareness' - Witthaya ...
Doctors have restored a man's consciousness after he spent 15 years in a vegetative state, the New York Daily News reports. The French man, 35, was in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) after a car ...