Last month, a 29-year-old woman who’s been in a persistent vegetative state since she was a toddler went into labor and gave birth. An employee of the Arizona health care facility where she’s resided ...

A 21 year old man faces 22 years in prison, after being accused of causing a car accident that put his friend into a ...

Scientists have used a portable device that tracks changes in brain waves to communicate with people in a vegetative state, some of whom have been locked in their bodies for more than a year. In a ...

Bill Timmons, the CEO of Hacienda Healthcare, quit amid investigation into what another board member called an "absolutely horrifying situation" Days after a patient in a long-term vegetative state ...

An attorney representing the family of the woman has spoken out on their behalf The family of the Arizona woman who gave birth to a baby boy last month, despite being in a vegetative state for a ...

A cognitively impaired woman at a nursing facility in Arizona gave birth to a baby last month, prompting a sexual-assault investigation and a cascade of news reports. When the 29-year-old patient at ...

A vegetative state, or unaware and unresponsive state, is a specific neurological diagnosis in which a person has a functioning brain stem but no consciousness or cognitive function. Individuals in an ...

A car accident at 20 years old left a French man in a vegetative state for 15 years. But after neurosurgeons implanted a vagus nerve stimulator in his chest, the man, now 35, is showing signs of ...