Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some comatose patients with severe brain injury might be paying closer attention to their surroundings than previously thought, a ...

Delving into the depths of the human mind, researchers are using advanced forms of brain imaging to uncover hidden memories in comatose patients. These findings not only challenge our previous ...

It is currently impossible to predict when a comatose patient might become conscious again. Some patients wake up minutes or days after a brain injury, while a rare few regain partial consciousness ...

Leading coma experts have created an ambitious plan to help doctors better care for comatose patients and answer that most awful question: “Will my loved one wake up?” The three-part plan outlines key ...

Hundreds of millions of people use social media every day, whether it is Facebook, Twitter or another forum for communication. Kamal Thapar, MD, a neurosurgeon with the Marshfield Clinic and medical ...

A study in Telemedicine and e-Health investigated whether remote physicians can assess comatose patients with telemedicine. The researchers — led by Amelia K. Adcock, MD, of Mayo Clinic College of ...

Five years ago, we heard how a team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) had used ultrasound to seemingly "jump start" a patient out of a coma. At the time, the scientists wondered if ...

A conservative strategy of withholding intubation is associated with clinical benefit in comatose patients with acute poisoning, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in the Journal of the ...

In adults, consciousness is the state of awareness of self and environment that gives significance to internal and external stimuli reaching the cerebral cortex. To be conscious, the individual must ...

The 31-year-old comatose patient, Harish Rana, became the first Indian to die from passive euthanasia. He died on March 24 at ...

Leading coma experts have created an ambitious plan to help doctors better care for comatose patients and answer that most awful question: “Will my loved one wake up?” The three-part plan outlines key ...