The South African government has dismissed media reports that said anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was in a permanent vegetative state with a life support machine keeping him alive in hospital.

A new documentary, Between Life & Death: Terri Schiavo’s Story, explores the case that gripped a nation Matt May/Getty A new documentary about Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who was in a persistent ...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a physician, questioned the diagnosis of a persistent vegetative state for Schiavo, based on video footage of the patient, for which he was criticized by ...

Much of the ammunition in the battle over Terri Schiavo’s fate has been medical language that’s fairly new in the public realm. The terms can mean one thing to experts and another thing entirely when ...

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The Supreme Court has instructed a Noida district hospital to establish a medical board to assess a father’s plea for passive euthanasia for his 31-year-old son, who has been in a permanent vegetative ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, ruling on a debate that has divided Catholic hospitals, said on Friday it was wrong to stop administering food and water to patients in a vegetative state even if ...

A disabled Texas woman will continue to receive food and water after a Texas attorney filed an emergency petition last month to keep her parents, who are Catholic, from ending her life by starvation.

The brain is the final frontier. As I asked last week, have researchers even discovered the full anatomical structure and physiology of the brain? As one clinical psychologist told me, innovators are ...

JOHANNESBURG -- Nelson Mandela is in critical but stable condition, the South African government said Friday, while a close friend said the anti-apartheid leader was conscious and responsive earlier ...

As far as we can tell, doctors don't study nutrition. In fact, if you ask a regular medical doctor about the relationship between what you eat and how you feel, you're likely to get a condescending ...