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A simple measurement using a device available in every hospital could distinguish brain damaged patients who are likely to “wake up” from those who are not, scientists reported on Thursday. Predicting ...

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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 ...

After a month of stimulation, the man's attention, movements and brain activity improved A car accident at 20 years old left a French man in a vegetative state for 15 years. But after neurosurgeons ...