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A husband in China, who suffered a cardiac arrest and has been barely conscious for many years, has now recovered thanks to his wife’s love and devotion.

Consciousness can be decreased to various degrees and result in conditions like delirium, stupor, coma, persistent vegetative state, minimal conscious state and brain death.

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Last Wednesday, Carol de Swardt died peacefully at Pegasos Clinic in Liestal, Switzerland.

The Calcutta High Court urged the Central and the State governments to consider bringing in a law to deal with the appointment of guardians to protect comatose patients or people in a vegetative state and their property.

Artemio Reynaga Reyes has spent the last six days in the hospital. His roommate said he is able to move his fingers and toes, but he is in a vegetative state.

United Airlines has agreed to a $30 million settlement after a deplaning incident left a quadriplegic man in a vegetative state, court papers show. The settlement with the family of Nathaniel Foster Jr, known as N.J., was disclosed on Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, and reached after one day of trial. It arose from the treatment of Foster, who had been using a wheelchair, ventilator and tracheal tube, as he and his family were disembarking from a Feb. 8, 2019 United Express flight to M...

The White House on Thursday expressed deep concern about the well-being of a U.S. soldier who bolted across the heavily armed North Korea border earlier this week as North Korean officials have yet to respond to U.S. requests for basic information about the AWOL soldier. The history of rough treatment of Americans detained by North Koreans — including the 2017 death of a 22-year-old student after he was flown home in a vegetative state after 17 months in captivity — is top of mind as U.S. of...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that Pvt. Travis King "willfully and without authorization" crossed the border.

Many hearts have been warmed on mainland social media by a Chinese woman who has decided to pay back US$26,500 in donations made by strangers which helped her nurse her husband through three years of being in a vegetative state.