Sometimes, following a brain injury, patients have periods of wakefulness but can't communicate with those around them. Might ...

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 ...

Ze Luis Gómez passed away last Tuesday, December 3rd, in Tamaulipas after spending years in a vegetative state.

Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment vote, but his presidency is in a “vegetative” state, analysts say, with government and ...

A dad was convicted of abusing his child into a vegetative state, California officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A father was found guilty of beating his 4-year-old daughter into a vegetative ...

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A timeshare executive was convicted Wednesday of nearly killing his longtime girlfriend in their Irvine condominium, leaving the victim in a persistent vegetative state. Jordan Adrian Salkin, 39, was ...

A stroke, a traumatic brain injury — at any moment, any one of us could leave behind our normal state of consciousness and start to require ’round-the-clock care. Sometimes, a patient displays ...