A study published this week could help doctors to identify patients with brain injuries, in seemingly unresponsive states, who are more likely to recover. In the study, published in the journal Brain ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Instead of a deep sleep, general anesthesia is more like a reversible drug-induced coma, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, in findings that could lead to better treatments for ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

An international study led by the Coma Science Group of the University of Liège (BE) and involving more than ten institutions has tested transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on a large ...

Research from Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian suggests that brain waves associated with sleep may help predict recovery in unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries. The study, ...

A Trenton woman gave birth and then, within the hour, was in a coma. Ashley Zinn was given just a 30 percent chance to live after being diagnosed with an amniotic fluid embolism.In a story you will ...