Let’s say something bad happens — a crash, a fall, a stroke, an overdose. Your brain absorbs a violent shock or a period without oxygen. But your heart still beats and your lungs still heave. Now ...

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IN JULY 2005, a 23-year-old British woman was involved in a horrific road accident. She was taken to hospital in a deep coma with a serious head injury. After an operation to relieve the pressure on ...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has appointed a wife (petitioner 1) as the legal guardian of her husband— who had been in a ...

The brain is the final frontier. As I asked last week, have researchers even discovered the full anatomical structure and physiology of the brain? As one clinical psychologist told me, innovators are ...

Much of the ammunition in the battle over Terri Schiavo’s fate has been medical language that’s fairly new in the public realm. The terms can mean one thing to experts and another thing entirely when ...

The Delhi High Court has permitted the continuation of IVF procedure for an Army soldier, who is in a persistent vegetative state with no foreseeable scope of neurological recovery in the near future.

The Delhi High Court has granted permission for an Army soldier in a persistent vegetative state to continue with IVF treatment, affirming his prior consent and his wife's fundamental right to ...