Michael Schumacher has been in a medically induced coma since hitting his head while skiing on December 29, and his condition is not improving. Reports from Mirror in the UK have doctors saying that ...

Emily Willis is reportedly showing improvements after a health incident left her in a vegetative coma earlier this year. Per a report from TMZ, Willis, who most recently starred in the Steven ...

I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker was overflowing with ideas to treat disorders of consciousness, which include ...

For more than eight years, Ariel Sharon lived in a vegetative state. The former Israeli prime minister, who died on Saturday at 85, suffered a stroke in 2006. His brain never recovered—but with the ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out. The car-crash victim ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A man in a deeply unconscious state for five years has been able to communicate with doctors using just his thoughts in a study scientists say is a "game changer" for care of ...

Doctors caring for people in a coma or vegetative state have been issued new guidelines to help them decide on the best course of treatment. The guidelines, which are also intended for families, set ...

Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by ...

A man who put his infant son in a vegetative coma by shaking him as a 2-month-old in 1991 has been charged with homicide after the son died last year at age 23. Forty-six-year-old Christopher Barber ...