New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

Let’s say something bad happens — a crash, a fall, a stroke, an overdose. Your brain absorbs a violent shock or a period ...

The New York Times Magazine explores how a growing body of research is upending what doctors thought they knew about people ...

Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them - findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for ...

In the netherworld that lies between death and full consciousness, some grievously injured or ill patients will remain suspended indefinitely. But others, given time, will eke their way out of the ...

In the family video played over and over on TV, Terri Schiavo seems to gaze fondly at her mother, with the hint of a smile. On Sunday night, as Congress took up debate on her case, her father told ...

Patients in a vegetative state do not respond to what is happening around them and exhibit no signs of conscious awareness. Now research has shown that the brains of patients in a vegetative state ...

A second doctor has resigned as Hacienda HealthCare and police both investigate the sexual assault that preceded the Dec. 29 birth Two doctors responsible for the care of a woman in a long-term ...