News tagged with vegetative state

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Canadian helps severely disabled speak through music

Children immured within their severely disabled bodies may soon be able to communicate thanks to a newly unveiled device that translates physiological signals into music.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vegetative state patients may soon be able to communicate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Cambridge University in the UK have been able to communicate with brain-injured patients in "locked states" commonly referred to as persistent vegetative states (PVS). They ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Top German court approves euthanasia with patient consent

Germany's Federal Court of Justice on Friday overturned the conviction of a lawyer who advised an elderly comatose woman's family to cut off her feeding tube, in a landmark ruling on euthanasia.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Paralyzed Belgian patient can't talk after all

(AP) -- It was heralded as a medical miracle. After spending more than two decades in a vegetative state, Rom Houben, a Belgian man in his mid-40s, was suddenly able to communicate, news reports trumpeted last November.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 19, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 8