Xuan feeds Xu liquid food spoonful by spoonful, taking an hour per meal, and turns her over 10 times daily to prevent ...

The daughter-in-law slipped into a vegetative state in 2009 after being struck by a truck just one month after her wedding.

Newswise — The "Vegetative State" (VS) is a term that most people have heard, but there is surprising disagreement among medical practitioners, ethicists, clergy and others as to the definition of ...

Birch is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and author of “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” A stroke, a traumatic brain injury — ...

The New York Times Magazine explores how a growing body of research is upending what doctors thought they knew about people in so-called vegetative states. The piece by Katie Engelhart reports that ...