When the woman went into labor a few days after Christmas, her caretakers were flummoxed. She’d been in a persistent vegetative state for nearly a decade after a near-drowning. She received ...

PHOENIX (KPNX) — The woman who gave birth at Hacienda Healthcare in Phoenix is not in a vegetative state or comatose, according to her family’s lawyer. John Micheaels, the attorney representing the ...

At sea: George and Laura Bush search for survivors today in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina take one of Dad’s boats out for an excursion in the ’70s in Kennebunkport in the aftermath ...

Many of the patients were labeled with the same grim diagnosis: "vegetative state." Their head injuries, teams of specialists had concluded, condemned them to a netherworld -- alive yet utterly devoid ...