by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A judge rejected a family’s plea that a 53-year-old woman in a supposed vegetative state should be allowed to die — at least until she is given a drug that could wake her up. Sir Mark Potter, president of the High Court Family Division, says the woman...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
An international study finds that about forty percent of patients like Terri Schiavo who are supposedly in a persistent vegetative state are misdiagnosed and another fifty percent of them recover from their situation. The study finds the patients in question were in a...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
According to a study by the Coma Science Group of the University of Liège, Belgium, up to half the patients in an acute vegetative state regain some level of consciousness. Results of the study are also consistent with previous studies showing that at least 40% of...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
If there’s one thing worse than being in a coma, it’s people thinking you are in one when you aren’t. Yet a new comparison of methods for detecting consciousness suggests that around 40 per cent of people diagnosed as being in a vegetative state are...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Terminally-ill patient Leslie Burke, 46, has lost the last stage of a legal challenge for the right to receive nutrition and drink when he is close to death, his lawyers said. Burke, who has a degenerative brain condition, fears artificial nutrition could be stopped...
