'Menace II Society' star Samuel Monroe Jr. may end up in a vegetative state after battling severe meningitis and other ...

Prayers and well wishes for veteran actor Samuel Monroe Jr. have continued since he was hospitalized earlier this year. Now ...

Birch is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and author of “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” A stroke, a traumatic brain injury — ...

(RNS) — The very concept of “persistent vegetative state” is, first of all, deeply offensive. No living, breathing human being is a vegetable, regardless of how disabled they are. Second, the concept ...

A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after neurosurgeons implanted a vagus nerve stimulator into his chest. The ...