New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

Let’s say something bad happens — a crash, a fall, a stroke, an overdose. Your brain absorbs a violent shock or a period ...

The New York Times Magazine explores how a growing body of research is upending what doctors thought they knew about people ...

PHOENIX -- The revelation that a Phoenix woman in a vegetative state recently gave birth has prompted the CEO of a private health care facility to resign, putting a spotlight on the safety of ...

The Delhi High Court has allowed the continuation of IVF treatment for an Army soldier in a persistent vegetative state, ...

The brain is the final frontier. As I asked last week, have researchers even discovered the full anatomical structure and physiology of the brain? As one clinical psychologist told me, innovators are ...