New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.
IN JULY 2005, a 23-year-old British woman was involved in a horrific road accident. She was taken to hospital in a deep coma with a serious head injury. After an operation to relieve the pressure on ...
On March 11, the Supreme Court addressed one of the most difficult questions of life and death: whether, when and on what ...