PHILADELPHIA — For two decades, car-crash victim Rom Houben lay paralyzed and voiceless in what his doctors thought was a vegetative state. He appeared to be awake, but showed no signs of awareness.

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 ...

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 ...

Any "patient in a vegetative state had the right to basic sanitary assistance – food, water and hygiene – and to efforts to prevent health complications caused by immobility," the Pope said March 20.

The Delhi High Court appointed a woman as the legal guardian of her husband, who has been lying in a vegetative state.

Standard medical exams miss subtle signs of awareness in around 40% of cases. New research shows that post-coma patients who appear to be in a minimally conscious state can still mentally react to ...

After suffering a cardiac arrest last month, ex-porn star Emily Willis slipped into a coma and has been in a vegetative state ever since. Her family moved Willis to a celebrity rehab but are preparing ...