by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
Sleeping Drug Broke Man’s 3-Year Coma A 28-year-old South African man who has been comatose since an accident three years ago is able to wake up with the unlikely help of a sleeping medication… Louis Viljoen was hit by a truck on a highway in 2003, and has...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state. But across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking … a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough....
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 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state. But across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking … a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough....
by APFLI | May 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Researchers are gaining insights into why some minimally conscious patients with a severe brain injury appear to “awaken” after taking the sleep medication zolpidem (Ambien, Sanofi-Aventis). The answer may lie in a pool of recruitable and functional brain...
