California declares state of emergency amid fires
Authorities declared a state of emergency in northern California, ravaged by fires at a time when several other western US states are also fighting flames.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in northern California, ravaged by fires at a time when several other western US states are also fighting flames.
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.
(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 ...
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.
(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.