Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Vegetative' was first used in 1972 to label patients demonstrating 'arousal in the absence of awareness' - Witthaya ...

Terri Schiavo was a Florida woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years. Her husband claimed she did not want to live on life support; her family disagreed, and their battle reached ...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has permitted Smt Nagamma to operate her husband's bank account. Her husband is in a persistent ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The case of Terri Schiavo captured the attention of the nation and the world in the early 2000s. In 1990, a heart attack left the 26-year-old woman in what doctors described as a ...

Nine years after a 17-year-old girl who was crossing the road at a zebra crossing on Marine Drive was knocked down by a ...

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 ...