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 ...
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New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices. Tabitha and Aaron WilliamsCredit...Alec Soth/Magnum, for The New York Times ...
IN JULY 2005, a 23-year-old British woman was involved in a horrific road accident. She was taken to hospital in a deep coma with a serious head injury. After an operation to relieve the pressure on ...
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has appointed a wife (petitioner 1) as the legal guardian of her husband— who had been in a ...
Delhi HC allows IVF for soldier in vegetative state, affirming earlier consent and supporting wife's rights for motherhood.