Coma survivors have shared a range of incredible stories, often acquiring new abilities, developing new obsessions, or undergoing a complete transformation in their perception of the world. Curious?

First-person, subjective definitions of coma emphasize the absence of inner consciousness or awareness from the perspective of the patient. By contrast, third-person, objective definitions declare ...

Some comatose patients may be conscious and able to feel pain so life support should not automatically be switched off, a study suggests. Ground-breaking research has discovered that infrared ...

What is your goal? GHAJAR: Physicians caring for patients with severe head injury used to think that when the person came in in a coma after severe-head injury, that the first injury, the original ...

Four of five remaining Hawaii patients with severe injuries from the Aliamanu fireworks explosion are now awake, according to the director of the Arizona Burn Center.

Even though all six patients are still intubated and in a medically induced coma, they are “all on course” to recovery, said ...

A patient lying in a vegetative state for over 3 years woke up after being administered a sleeping pill, given to assuage a spell of restlessness A patient lying in a vegetative state for over 3 ...

The post comes as UnitedHealthcare is the target of public outrage because of its high denial of claims. Its 50-year-old CEO Brian Thompson was killed on December 4 in New York by accused Luigi ...

Intensive care patients who were seriously ill or in comas ... last September that he was put on life support and into a coma. Swansea Bay University Health Board Callum Fleming was in a coma ...

Subjective definitions of coma emphasize the absence of inner consciousness or awareness from the perspective of the patient. Objective definitions of coma consider a certain set of external signs ...