Hundreds of millions of people use social media every day, whether it is Facebook, Twitter or another forum for communication. Kamal Thapar, MD, a neurosurgeon with the Marshfield Clinic and medical ...

Physicians may be drawing conclusions too soon about survival outcomes of patients who suffered a cardiac arrest outside the hospital. A study led by Bentley Bobrow, MD, professor at the University of ...

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 ...

A 25-year-old man recovering from a coma made significant progress after receiving an ultrasound treatment designed to galvanize brain function, according to a new report published in Brain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some comatose patients with severe brain injury might be paying closer attention to their surroundings than previously thought, a ...

Some brain injury patients may appear to be in a coma, but they are not. They are processing at least some of what is happening around them but cannot physically respond. Without a physical response, ...

Vietnam has successfully carried out its first domino multi-organ transplant, the Department of Medical Service Administration under the Ministry of Health and Viet Duc University Hospital announced ...

Word of the Day: "Comatose" describes a state of deep unconsciousness, often resulting from serious medical conditions like ...