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Comatose patients often have a questionable prognosis. Family and doctors are left to ask, what are the chances a loved one ...

Priscilla Timmons remembers rushing to the bathroom to vomit. Then, her eyesight went dark. Grabbing the sink’s counter, she eased herself onto the floor. Unable to speak, the 38-year-old shakily used ...

An orthopedic surgeon was fined $10,000 after taking and sharing a photo of a swastika tattoo located on a comatose patient's penis. As previously reported by the New Zealand Herald last month, the ...

There is a palpable tension eating away at the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors are over-capacity. Patients are under-informed and lack the confidence needed to properly self-advocate for their ...

James Mackey, 63, was charged with the following before his court appearance Dec. 30: felony 3rd-degree criminal sexual ...

A woman who was placed in a medically induced coma has revealed what it was like to feel "trapped" in her own body—still able to hear, feel and see her surroundings. Earlier this year, Toyosi Adeneye ...

The boy—from Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara—is now the first and only patient so far who has fully recovered from the toxins.

The internet can give you the behind-the-scenes of just about anything, so if you were ever curious about what it's like to be in a coma, you're about to find out. A while back, people of the BuzzFeed ...

A doctor was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering 12 of his patients. Prosecutors said he was France's "biggest ciminal." ...