Severely brain-damaged patients in a persistent vegetative state may be capable of being consciously aware of the outside world, scientists said. A relatively simple test based on measuring patterns ...

Patients left in a “vegetative” state after suffering devastating brain damage are able to understand and communicate, groundbreaking research suggests. By Richard Alleyne And Martin Beckford and ...

Being in a Persistent Vegetative State is different to coma or brain death. A coma is defined as a deep state of unconsciousness in which the person is alive but totally unable to react to their ...

Persistent vegetative state is long-term ­unconsciousness, or a coma, caused by brain ­damage. Sufferers are ­physically and mentally unresponsive to ­external stimuli, but require no help with vital ...

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra on Monday said a terminally-ill patient or a person in persistent vegetative state should not be made an “experimental object” ...

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The High Court has ruled a woman in a persistent vegetative state given an experimental treatment against her family's wishes can be allowed to die. It had been ruled, despite her family's view, that ...

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A patient who doctors want to withhold life-saving treatment from has suddenly shown signs of recovering from a persistent vegetative state, a judge was told yesterday. The 55-year-old heart-attack ...