A new podcast details the terrifying experience of a Bostonian who spent more than nine months completely coherent but ...

Scientists at the French National Center for Scientific Research have used nerve stimulation to induce signs of consciousness in a man who has been in a vegetative state almost half his life.

A person in a vegetative state is alive, can breathe unaided and there is a slim chance of recovery. Brain death is when a person is being kept alive artificially and there is no chance of recovery.

A man in France has regained some degree of consciousness after being in a vegetative state for 15 years. Doctors treated the 35-year-old, injured in a car accident, with an experimental therapy ...

A timeshare executive was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison for nearly killing his longtime girlfriend in their Irvine condominium, leaving the victim in a persistent vegetative state. Jordan ...

Patients described as being in the vegetative state fail to show behavioral signs of awareness including visual pursuit, following commands, or localization to pain. Recent work has demonstrated ...