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"vegetative" Definitions
  1. relating to plant life
  2. (medical) (of a person) alive but showing no sign of brain activity see also persistent vegetative state

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Vegetative state birth Investigators in Phoenix are gathering DNA from male employees at a care facility where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth.
Vegetative state birth A nurse is suspected to be the person who impregnated a woman in a vegetative state in a Phoenix health care facility.
Scientists then categorized the exhaustion into one of three categories: experiencing "vegetative" depressive symptoms like fatigue, "non-vegetative" symptoms like crying, and functional depressive symptoms like coping and being productive.
His family believes he was tortured into a vegetative state.
Initial reports said that the woman was in a vegetative state.
When people go into vegetative states, they don't go there alone.
She remained in a vegetative state until her death in 2008.
Drogo was successfully brought back to life — but in a vegetative state.
Most people that suffer the injuries we suffered are in vegetative states.
Occasionally I slip off the planks onto the squishy vegetative carpet below.
The patient had been in a vegetative state for more than a decade.
He returned to the US in a vegetative state and died days later.
In June, he fell into a vegetative state after having multiple mini strokes.
Cox casts vegetative humanoids as amorous heroes with their own language and literature.
He had been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year.
These are signs of minimal consciousness, a marked improvement over a vegetative state.
Without the vegetative cover to keep the permafrost cold, it began to thaw.
From then on out, she lay in a vegetative state in a hospital.
Although earlier stories described the patient as being in a vegetative state, on Jan.
Even if Cruz survived, they were told, he would be in a vegetative state.
Researchers wondered whether such treatment could help people in a vegetative state regain consciousness.
He was flown back to the United States in June in a vegetative state.
Owen's encounters with vegetative patients, each one seemingly more fantastic, have been media sensations.
Left in a vegetative state for more than 25 years, Shanbaug died in 22019.
The woman in a vegetative state, who gave birth to a baby boy on Dec.
Warmbier died after he was returned to the U.S. in 2017 in a vegetative state.
The "skills gap" was a lie A woman in a vegetative state suddenly gave birth.
He was in a vegetative state when he returned home to his family near Cincinnati.
One of his clients was Jack, whose wife Carrie was in a persistent vegetative state.
Patients in a vegetative state show no evidence of consciousness, mental function or motor function.
Marijuana plants move through the vegetative stage into the flowering stage when lighting conditions change.
They grow larger, and their yield increases, the longer they are in the vegetative stage.
There's the young woman who recovered from a vegetative state and became a competitive dancer.
Khal Drogo: Smothered with a pillow by Daenerys while in a magically induced vegetative state.
All the jumpers he has witnessed hit some kind of soft vegetative surface and survived.
When Otto arrived back in the United States he was in a persistent vegetative state.
The North Korean authorities released him "on compassionate grounds" on June 13th, in a vegetative state.
A Florida woman sued Lime after a scooter crash left her daughter in a vegetative state.
He was in a vegetative state when he returned home to his family near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Some close relative is facing the most hopeless prognosis, such as being in a vegetative state.
In this case, a man in a vegetative state began moving his eyes, and then died.
His physicians said he suffered from unresponsive wakefulness, a condition also known as persistent vegetative state.
That includes a chronic end-stage disease, terminal illness or persistent vegetative state, according to McClanahan.
He was only transferred back to the US after spending 17 months in a vegetative state.
It's shameful, he took advantage of a person who was as if in a vegetative state.
He remained locked in what his doctors diagnosed as a vegetative state, unresponsive and seemingly unaware.
By December 2016, however, a series of mysterious seizures had left him in a permanently vegetative state.
"The vegetative state can arise from any number of causes of injury to the brain," he says.
Patients in vegetative states, meanwhile, can have facial expressions and make sounds, though they are still unconscious.
His treating physicians said he suffered from unresponsive wakefulness, a condition also known as persistent vegetative state.
Also known as persistent vegetative state, the syndrome's symptoms include no voluntary movement or awareness of surroundings.
"In a persistent vegetative state, your organs still work, and your fertility is still there," she said.
A French patient received a traumatic brain injury fifteen years ago, putting him into a vegetative state.
Whereas a persistent vegetative state occurs rarely, Dr. Gaster tells his patients, dementia strikes far more commonly.
A nurse is accused of impregnating a woman in a vegetative state who later gave birth 1003.
Sunny was a rich, blonde fixture of those overlapping worlds when she mysteriously fell into a vegetative state.
But a patient who survives may end up in a coma or vegetative state or become minimally conscious.
Many headlines rightly imply that the man was only minimally conscious, not much better than a vegetative state.
He was released last week and North Korea said he'd been in a vegetative state for 17 months.
The woman, who remains in a vegetative state, and the baby are recovering at a hospital, Thompson said.
Duan persisted in a vegetative state for about two years before dying from his injuries at age 21.
Warmbier was released by Pyongyang in June 2017 and returned to the United States in a vegetative state.
The student was returned to the United States in a vegetative state in 22019 and died shortly after.
DoC are different from comas; in vegetative or minimally conscious states, a person is awake, but not aware.
In January 20183, Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, suffered a stroke that left him in a vegetative state.
Otto Warmbier was returned to the U.S. in a vegetative state in June 85033 and died shortly thereafter.
At the same time, people in persistent vegetative states have also recovered to either partial or full consciousness.
"They said he had no chance of a meaningful recovery and he was in a vegetative state," Jansen explains.
A woman in a vegetative state for more than a decade just gave birth, and now police are investigating.
When Terry attempted to take her daughter back, she was tortured by Brenner and left in a vegetative state.
When he arrived, his father remembers seeing a "kind of a lifeless Ben" who was in a vegetative state.
But people in a minimally conscious state also showed pattern 1 more often than people in a vegetative state.
A man recently "woke" from a vegetative state, crying again after "regaining consciousness," creating a flurry of news coverage.
Instead, he spent 17 months there in detention where his family believes he was tortured into a vegetative state.
Among them was Josh Wilkerson, a dog kennel supervisor who died in June after falling into a vegetative state.
In 2013, 21-year-old Julian Cole was left in a vegetative state after he was detained by police.
Otto Warmbier, an American college student, died in June, a week after he was released in a vegetative state.
Alfie had a rare, degenerative disease and had been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year.
Mr. Warmbier suffered severe brain damage while being detained and was released in a vegetative state in June 2017.
Improvements in medicine mean people are increasingly likely to survive events that leave them in vegetative or minimally conscious states.
But those in a so-called vegetative state often give the impression of someone who is emerging from a coma.
" Phoenix police sergeant Tommy Thompson described her in a press conference and to PEOPLE as being "in a vegetative state.
Such a discovery would be obviously be great in helping doctors and families of vegetative patients better understand their situation.
The woman, who has been in a vegetative state for 14 years, gave birth to a boy on December 29.
Warmbier was released to the US in a vegetative state and died just days after touching down on American soil.
Once you cut into permafrost, disturbing the active, vegetative layer that insulates the frozen soil, it quickly begins to thaw.
She had been left in a permanent vegetative state after being strangled with a metal chain during a sexual assault.
When Warmbier returned to the United States he had extensive brain damage that left him in a persistent vegetative state.
Doctors said the boy had little chance of survival, or would be severely mentally disabled or in a vegetative state.
The youngest specimen, still green with juvenile innocence, displayed a slight vegetative freshness underneath the noni essence, like a regurgitated cucumber.
It increases soil stability, removes dust from the air and water, and, like other vegetative sources, it also cools the air.
She tells Paul she already has two soulmates who take up all her time — Paul himself and their vegetative, hospitalized mother.
They finally got her to the hospital, but by then, it was too late: my daughter was in a vegetative state.
In fact, there's a whole McMurphy hospital within the simulation where bodies lay vegetative within GRTA, as they do outside her.
"They said he had no chance of a meaningful recovery and he was in a vegetative state," Jansen told PEOPLE exclusively.
Alfie was suffering from an undiagnosed brain disorder and was described by his doctors as being in a semi-vegetative state.
After being held prisoner by North Korea for 17 months, Warmbier was handed over to the US in a vegetative state.
Last week, his treating physicians in Cincinnati said he suffered from unresponsive wakefulness, a condition also known as persistent vegetative state.
He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor but later was released to the United States in a vegetative state.
But the insulin didn't work properly with Wilkerson's body, and he fell into a vegetative state after having multiple mini strokes.
Bernat points out that every vegetative state case is different, and the vagus nerve stimulation might not work for every patient.
Otto was only transferred back to the US after spending 17 months in a vegetative state and died six days later.
The next step will be to confirm and extend the results with more patients in both vegetative and minimally conscious states.
In eight patients who were classified as vegetative and minimally conscious, four could produce fMRI responses that appeared to follow commands.
"The standard advance directives tend to focus on things like a 'permanent coma' or a 'persistent vegetative state,'" Dr. Gaster said.
The doctor said that if they were taken out, I could be left in a vegetative state, or I could die.
Warmbier was the U.S. student who died in 85033 after being returned from a North Korean prison in a vegetative state.
Our study We have previously shown that network signals of consciousness can also be seen in some people in a vegetative state.
"The brain is a constant mystery," Macy says when an obtunded woman bursts to life after 15 years in a vegetative state.
The researchers came to this conclusion by modeling the amount of carbon that would be stored by vegetative regrowth on fallow land.
Doctors told Speidel's parents he would be in a vegetative state and need 24/7 care for the rest of this life.
He spent eight days in a coma and several months in a near-vegetative state, said the film's producer, Pieter van Huystee.
One person who was left in a vegetative state died four years later — too long after the disaster for a homicide charge.
After all, when he first started to study consciousness in vegetative patients, people thought that was a waste of time and resources.
Experts at the time said that was the country's first recorded episode of a woman in a chronic vegetative state giving birth.
"It's the worst explosion in the last 60 years," Diego Quiroga, the agriculture agency's chief of vegetative protection, said in a telephone interview.
The patient at Hacienda HealthCare, who gave birth to a baby boy in December, while being in a vegetative state has been identified.
The 42-year-old had sustained severe brain damage following a car accident in 2008 and had been living in a vegetative state.
When a person is in a vegetative state, often from a severe brain injury, they don't respond to their environment or other people.
Since then, physicians have had to grapple with determining whether their patients are truly in a vegetative state, conscious, or somewhere in between.
What if the opposite of work isn't idleness, vegetative lounging, but something creative, perhaps a form of solidarity or way of being together?
Kids with Sanfilippo lose the ability to talk and walk, and typically end up in a vegetative state before dying in their teens.
Its use, for example, to restore cryopreserved brains or revive individuals in a brain dead, vegetative stage, is completely speculative at this stage.
After being held prisoner by North Korea for 17 months, Warmbier in June was handed over to the US in a vegetative state.
Sirigu and her colleagues decided to test the ability of vagus nerve stimulation to restore consciousness in a patient in a vegetative state.
PharmaCielo plans to supplement the sun by using low-wattage LED bulbs to effectively trick the plants into staying in the vegetative stage.
If successful, the work won't only extend the usefulness of VNS treatment and offer hope to those in a long-term vegetative state.
He had made it out of the "gray zone," which Owen conceptualizes as the place people in vegetative and minimally conscious states go.
Studies show that between 20 to 40 percent of nursing home patients with traumatic brain injury who appear vegetative may be minimally conscious.
He was flown back to the United States last June in a vegetative state and died at a hospital in Ohio shortly after.
In the United States, most families would opt for palliative care for a relative in a vegetative state resembling Mr. Warmbier's, she added.
Not long after Bainbridge came a vegetative patient, called Debbie in the book, whose temporal lobes seemed to respond normally to recorded speech.
But behind her bright smile is a tragic journey: At 11 years old, Arlen was in a vegetative state, fighting for her life.
Owen has put some vegetative patients inside a brain scanner and played them Hitchcock films, to observe brain activity during the scary scenes.
The tribe confirmed in the press release the woman is 29 years old, meaning she has been in a vegetative since her late teens.
Then 22, Warmbier returned home to Ohio in a vegetative state -- blind, deaf, and having sustained severe brain damage during his year in detention.
Then 22, Warmbier returned home to Ohio in a vegetative state -- blind, deaf, and having sustained severe brain damage from his year in detention.
This method might not replace the fMRI imaging completely, but it could reliably help determine which vegetative patients should be imaged for cognitive activity.
A previous version of this article reported she was in a vegetative state and the language has been updated to reflect the family's statement.
The patient, whose age and identity has not been made public, was left in a persistent vegetative state after nearly drowning 14 years ago.
The facility made national headlines last year when a 29-year-old resident in a long-term vegetative state gave birth to a baby.
In the United States, an estimated 50,000 patients are in a vegetative state, and about 300,000 are in a minimally conscious state, Schiff said.
People in comas are neither awake nor aware, but in vegetative states a person seems awake, though how aware they are is not clear.
Her 18-year-old stepson, Stephen (Charlie Heaton), once a psychologically disturbed ball of hate, is now vegetative and paralyzed after a car accident.
He died six days later in the United States, after his parents decided to end the life support that was sustaining his vegetative state.
A patient is considered in a vegetative state when he or she is awake but not showing signs of awareness, according to the Mayo Clinic.
A nurse has been arrested in the sexual assault of an Arizona woman who gave birth last month while in a long-term vegetative state.
That still left him vulnerable to a substantial civil case brought by his stepchildren, who believed he was directly responsible for their mother's vegetative state.
We suit up in white coats and blue booties and peek into the clone room, the mother plant room, the flowering rooms, the vegetative rooms.
Okay, so: McMurphys are code for lost patients, patients that come out in a vegetative state because their minds are trapped inside of the computer.
It is also critical, they say, to include patients who have been minimally conscious or vegetative for years and are less likely to spontaneously recover.
A patient is considered in a vegetative state when he or she is awake but not showing signs of awareness, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Arizona cops have arrested the alleged father of the child birthed by a woman who's been in a vegetative state since she was a toddler.
When Otto arrived back in the US he was in a persistent vegetative state but North Korea claimed he had contracted botulism while in prison.
He was sentenced to 85033 years of hard labor but later released to the United States in a vegetative state and died in June 2017.
One of Hodges's favorite pastimes has become visiting Brady's hospital room, where the immobilized, vegetative patient cannot react to the abuse Hodges heaps on him.
He mentioned a man from the neighborhood who was left in a vegetative state when an S.U.V. plowed into his car a few weeks earlier.
He was sentenced to 2628 years of hard labor but later released to the United States in a vegetative state and died in June 28500.
Von Sydow's Three-Eyed-Raven perished seemingly without even chewing Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) out for leading the White Walkers right to their vegetative hideaway.
The case: In 1983, Nancy Cruzan, a 25-year-old woman, was in a car crash that resulted in her falling into a vegetative state.
What is known is that he was transferred to the US in a vegetative state on 12 June 2017, only to die six days later.
A handful of researchers over the past two decades have examined these patients, concluding that about 233 percent of people in vegetative states are misdiagnosed.
Sixty days after her heart attack, Geraldine was stable enough to leave the I.C.U. She was in a persistent vegetative state — unresponsive to external stimuli.
But when nearly half of those who could participate are misdiagnosed as vegetative when they are actually minimally conscious, this vulnerable group is further marginalized.
My heart breaks for Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student who died Monday after returning home from North Korea in a vegetative state.
Turtles swam with us in the pool, the water cold and unchlorinated under scum, colored the dim vegetative green of fairy tales before they're Americanized.
Most vegetative patients are not conscious, Owen will emphasize, and giving families false hope that their loved one might recover can be a dangerous thing.
For the first time since a patient in a vegetative state for more than a decade at an Arizona-based nursing facility gave birth on Dec.
Karanja said the vegetative part of the plant requires nitrogen in order to grow, while phosphorous helps in the formation of roots and the crop's structure.
"We were actually told by [doctors at] the Mayo Clinic that his brain scan said that he should be in a vegetative state," Sami tells PEOPLE.
Neeson remembered the "pact" the two had made, which said that if either went into a vegetative state the other would take them off life support.
" For their monthly Data Sketches project, Amsterdam-based Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu crunched data from US satellites measuring an area's overall vegetative health, or, "greenness.
Warmbier had not spoken or moved in any purposeful way since his return, a condition his doctors called "unresponsive wakefulness" also known as persistent vegetative state.
He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor but later released to the United States in a vegetative state and died in June of 2017.
All participants were over 60, and were asked by medical staff to hypothesise whether they would prefer to die than be in progressively worse vegetative states.
The CEO of a nursing facility in Arizona resigned after reports surfaced a woman who had been in a vegetative state for 14 years gave birth.
He was released to the United States in June 2017 while in a vegetative state, which North Korean officials blamed on botulism, and died soon after.
Mr. Hussain's sister died in a car accident and his brother Fahad overdosed on drugs last summer, ending up in a vegetative state at a hospital.
In a 2013 study, Owen reported a case of a man who had been diagnosed as vegetative but showed signs of awareness in his fMRI scan.
Mr. Lambert's wife, Rachel Lambert, has maintained that her husband had verbally expressed that he did not want to be kept alive in a vegetative state.
When a minimally conscious patient is mistakenly diagnosed as vegetative and thus thought insensate, they may not receive analgesic pain management or anesthesia for medical procedures.
Then 22 years old, Warmbier returned home to Ohio in a vegetative state -- blind, deaf, and having sustained severe brain damage from his time in detention.
But Lin has come out to tell the press that Liu was the one who inflicted the head injury that left her in a vegetative state.
Soon after, Tanzawa made his own "living will", stipulating he did not want life-prolonging treatment if he became terminally ill or was in a vegetative state.
Instead, Elena was put into what equates to a vegetative state, which leaves the door open for her to return and to her soulmate, Damon (Ian Somerhalder).
Monti, neuroscientist Adrian Owen, and other colleagues published a report in 2010 that found healthy-looking brain activity in patients in both vegetative and minimally conscious states.
One is the sleeping aid Zolpidem, which sells under the brand name Ambien — and paradoxically, has been shown to ramp up brain activity in some vegetative patients.
Unlike a coma, a vegetative state includes intermittent periods of eye opening; this seemingly hopeful sign, though, is not a normal waking, just a random physiological occurrence.
After Leo was left in a vegetative state following his shooting, Shelly and Bobby proceed to commit insurance fraud under the guise of taking care of him.
She often associates her scores with natural phenomena—water, wind, snow, crystal structures, vegetative growth—and the resultant music feels like the outcome of irreversible physical processes.
How close a vegetative person's overall brain activity matches a healthy person's during a movie could clue us in to how much of them is still here.
A 23-year-old trainee at ARI-Armaturen, a middle-sized manufacturer in the German industrial town of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, fell into a persistent vegetative state.
Trump frequently claimed credit for the return from North Korea of imprisoned US tourist Otto Warmbier even though he was in a vegetative state and later died.
A unit of an Arizona nursing facility, where a female patient in a long-term vegetative state gave birth to a child, will soon officially close its doors.
A police investigation is underway after a woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state for 14 years gave birth at a private nursing facility last month.
I know this because in bioethics there was a woman named Rita Greene, who was a nurse, and she went into a persistent vegetative state in about 1951.
Dany pleads with a captured woman to use magic to save him, but she fucks up the spell on purpose and he ends up in a vegetative state.
The lampshades are made of mushroom mycelium—the fleshy, vegetative part of the fungus that is an organic building materialstronger than concrete bricks and can withstand extreme temperatures.
As Gizmodo's Maddie Stone wrote last year:"Slime mold" is a broad term referring to a diverse and ancient group of organisms known for their slimy, vegetative secretions.
Phoenix police have released the 911 call from inside an Arizona nursing facility after a woman in a long-term vegetative state gave birth to a baby boy.
The Specialty Coffee Association presents a flavor wheel to help us talk about these flavors – from green/vegetative or papery/musty through to brown sugar or dried fruit.
People who were vegetative but did respond to the mental imaging test also occasionally showed the complex pattern 1, suggesting they could have had fleeting moments of consciousness.
But there was virtually no sign of the pattern in vegetative patients who hadn't responded to the mental imaging test, nor in the healthy volunteers who were sedated.
The nurse and mother of 11 from Johnson, South Carolina, suffered a traumatic brain injury, broken ribs, a collapsed lung and was in a vegetative state until Thanksgiving.
Most recently, it was discovered that a comatose patient at a nursing facility in Phoenix, Arizona, gave birth, despite having been in a vegetative state for 85033 years.
Sirigu and her colleagues selected the man, who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years "showing no sign of change since his car accident," she wrote.
He noted that every case of vegetative state is unique based on what caused damage to the brain, how severe that injury was and what regions were harmed.
Research indicates that the presence of trees can significantly reduce rates of asthma and other respiratory diseases, and several reports correlate reduced neighborhood crime rates with vegetative cover.
Individuals who are recovering face the possibility of waking up with a disorder of consciousness (DOC), such as the vegetative state (VS) or the minimally conscious state (MCS).
She's been lying in the same bed, in the same vegetative state, for more than four decades, since she was in a massive car accident at age 21.
The exact numbers are unknown, but a recent review estimated there are around 4,200 people diagnosed as being in a vegetative state in the United States per year.
In a sample of 292 patients given a diagnosis of vegetative state, 20183 were able to show responsiveness when their brain activity was recorded, suggesting they were conscious.
The family of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state before her feeding tube was removed in 2005, were similarly divided.
The insurance carrier finally agreed to provide round-the-clock nursing care — after D'ashon choked while no nurse was on duty and lapsed into a permanent vegetative state.
Zynae Green, who was six when the accident happened, went into cardiac arrest and remains in a semi-vegetative state, unable to walk or talk, the Associated Press reported.
"McMurphy" is the codeword for patients who emerge from the Pill C process in a vegetative state, their minds having been captured in the matrix by GRTA the computer.
The victim, who was under Sutherland's direct care when the rape occurred, has been in a vegetative state since the age of three after she almost drowned to death.
LONDON (Reuters) - The doctors and families of patients in a permanent vegetative state will no longer need legal permission to end their treatment, London's Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
The North Korean government handed Warmbier over to US authorities in a vegetative state last week and his death has spurred calls for a US response from several lawmakers.
Phoenix (CNN)Police investigators have begun to gather DNA from men who work at an Arizona care facility where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth last month.
Her medical directive says if she has an illness that results in "complete physical dependency" or "a vegetative state characterized by permanent and irreversible unconsciousness" she wants to die.
Warmbier was held in DPRK custody for 17 months and later returned to his family in a vegetative state; he died six days after returning to the United States.
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - A French quadriplegic in a vegetative state involved in a decade-long legal battle to maintain his life support died on Thursday after doctors ended treatment.
This latest attack follows the news of the "surprising" birth of a baby born last month to a 29-year old woman in a vegetative state in Phoenix, Arizona.
Partly this is a result of what presently separates them: the band of hills that were literally vegetative green but here appear a darker blue than the sky. Why?
"These are quite a big hazard in vegetative areas and the explosions can occur well away from the lava flow itself," USGS geologist Janet Babb said on the call.
One of Francis' predecessors, John Paul II, spoke out in 2004 about Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who was left in a persistent vegetative state after a cardiac arrest.
For example, the act doesn't say anything about people in persistent vegetative states (in which their brain stem still functions but they have no ability for higher-level thinking).
But on June 13th they released him, in a vegetative state, "on compassionate grounds", after talks between the North's ambassador to the UN and America's point-man on the country.
The man arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a woman in a long-term vegetative state who gave birth has given up his nursing license, according to multiple reports.
The milestone comes just one year after she regained the ability to walk following almost four years in a vegetative state due to her transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.
They may emerge from coma to conscious state, but individuals who do not, for whom the unconscious state persists, may lighten into what is referred to as a vegetative state.
Others were diagnosed with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, a condition where people can be awake, but without showing signs of voluntary movement (this is commonly referred to as a vegetative state).
The ruling looked at cases of a prolonged disorder of consciousness (PDOC), which encompasses people who are minimally conscious or in a persistently vegetative state following a severe brain injury.
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - A quadriplegic French patient, who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, should be allowed to die, France's top court ruled on Friday.
After spending 15 years in a vegetative state following a car accident, a 35-year-old man fitted with a nerve stimulator in his chest has shown signs of consciousness.
Records of where animals move can be shared with other researchers, and combined with data on vegetative cover, elevations and temperature, anywhere on the globe, from NASA and other sources.
At the same time, Houston officials are asking residents to separate their Harvey-related waste into five piles: appliances; electronics; construction and demolition debris; household hazardous waste; and vegetative debris.
Her head dented in from a craniectomy — the removal of a piece of skull to relieve the pressure of her swollen brain — she lingered for months in a vegetative state.
The worm uses a needle on its head to puncture the mushroom's hyphae — the stringy filaments that make up its mycelium, or vegetative body — and suck out its cellular content.
But it is also why people in persistent vegetative states are not declared dead — they're not brain-dead, but as far as we know, they also don't have cognitive abilities.
An Arizona nursing facility where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth last month was earlier faulted for failure to protect residents' privacy while they were naked in the shower.
They reported in their paper that the man moved from a vegetative to a minimally conscious state, going from a five to a 10 on the 23-point Coma Recovery Scale.
At that time, Warmbier continued to suffer from "unresponsive wakefulness," also known as a persistent vegetative state, meaning he was awake at times but not aware of his surroundings or himself.
Woman is a member of Apache tribe The woman is a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe and has long been in a vegetative state, the tribe's chairman said Tuesday.
The 22016 and 217 seasons were perhaps a bit too wet at the start of the vegetative growth period, when soybeans actually prefer to be somewhat drier, similar to this year.
The UHT treatment, on the other hand, "is a sterilization process, which means that it kills practically all micro-organisms, both vegetative cells and spores," Dr. Moraru said in an interview.
Selecting a patient who'd been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, then, eliminated the possibility that any improvements were simply a coincidence and not the result of stimulation.
Though the man still can't talk or walk, researchers say his progress suggests that even people who've long been in vegetative states may respond to the right kind of medical intervention.
People in a vegetative state can sometimes open their eyes and have basic reflexes, but they do not have a meaningful response to stimulation or display any sign of experiencing emotions.
"I find it intriguing that the purported medical usage of the plant is being revived today, but is instead extracted from the vegetative parts," Dr. Davis said in an email interview.
A similar ethical argument gripped the United States in 2005 during the right-to-die debate over Terri Schiavo, whose brain damage at age 26 left her in a vegetative state.
But Owen believes that as many as one-in-five who are diagnosed as "vegetative" could actually retain some level of consciousness that's undetectable by the methods that doctors traditionally use.
Warmbier was the University of Virginia student who was arrested for stealing a poster, then sentenced to 22002 years of hard labor and eventually returned to the U.S. in a vegetative state.
The case echoes the one of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who was left in a persistent vegetative state after a cardiac arrest and was also the subject of a court battle.
"As you may be aware, TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. (Keystone) intends to begin vegetative clearing in preparation for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline (Project) this fall," the State Department letter said.
Not only has the church been historically opposed to medically assisted suicide and euthanasia, its representatives have often vocally advocated on behalf of keeping terminally ill or vegetative patients on life support indefinitely.
To this end terminal patients as well as those who are facing the abject misery of a vegetative life should, with a reasonable cooling-off period, have considerable freedom to choose assisted deaths.
That said, if you made plans to see a movie with your high school pals after Thanksgiving dinner, there are a few strategies you can try to feel more alert and less vegetative.
Warmbier was detained during a tour of North Korea last year for trying to steal a propaganda poster, the government said, and during his imprisonment he somehow slipped into a persistent vegetative state.
Evans had been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year and the hospital he had been treated at in Liverpool, England concluded that any further treatment would be in vain.
Perez was declared to be in a vegetative state—a liminal place between life and death where traumatic brain injury or a lack of oxygen renders a person mostly immobile and conceals consciousness.
France: A 42-year-old man who has spent more than a decade in a vegetative state was put back on life support hours after doctors began giving him heavy doses of sedation.
Testing for consciousness in brain-injured patients is heavily subjective, and can be misdiagnosed as a result: An estimated 43 percent of patients who qualify as "vegetative" are misdiagnosed, as D'Arcy pointed out.
"Modesty should be paramount when handling these questions," he said, noting that much is still unknown about the consciousness of vegetative patients, and that legislation could never cover each and every individual case.
New research published this week in PLoS One shows that the leaves of some plants are sensitive to touch, and that the rubbing of their vegetative elbows sets off a chemical stress signal underground.
Evans was born apparently healthy in May 2000 but began experiencing inexplicable seizures in December 286, and was in a semi-vegetative state at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, England, until his death.
A new update has been given on the 11-day-old baby boy born to the woman who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade at an Arizona nursing facility.
Doctors have also been frustrated by the unpredictability of brain injuries; one severely injured patient might spontaneously emerge from a coma relatively intact, while others linger in vegetative states for years and sometimes decades.
Timmons' ousting comes after days of bad press for Hacienda HealthCare after reports first broke on January 4 that a women in a vegetative state had been sexually assaulted while under the facility's care.
Trump also said he wanted to pay his "warmest respects" to the family of Otto Warmbier, the American who was released by the North Koreans in a vegetative state, only to die days later.
A vegetative state can be caused by a variety of injuries, including traumatic brain injury, injury to neurons caused by a lack of oxygen and blood flow during cardiac arrest or meningitis, he explained.
The accepted practice in Britain has long been that nutrition and fluids could not be withheld from a patient in a vegetative state without the approval of a specialist tribunal, the Court of Protection.
"They are a bit zombie-like, which gives you this weird sense of presence," said Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at Western University who has been studying people in vegetative states for over 20 years.
The same might be said for the 2013 de Sousa Colheita baga, under $20173, tasting of fresh, ripe, dark fruit, with a slight vegetative touch — it reminded me of charred jalapeño — that added complexity.
In France, a 42-year-old nurse who had been in a vegetative state for more than a decade died in July, after doctors had stopped feeding him artificially, following years of legal battles.
"A lot of fund managers and historic shareholders are fed up with Sanofi and tired of seeing the stock in this 'vegetative' state," said Frederic Rozier, a Sanofi investor and fund manager with Meeschaert.
Using a patient in a vegetative state for 15 years versus someone only in the state for a few months decreases the chance that the authors would have observed the patient improving on his own.
"When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written off as a lost cause," she explained on the premiere episode.
Days after a patient in a long-term vegetative state gave birth in an Arizona nursing facility, prompting a criminal investigation and growing concern from other patients' families, the CEO of the facility has quit.
Khal Drogo was humanely smothered after he was resurrected into a vegetative state, Barristan Selmy was felled in battle, and King Robert was killed by, of all things, a wild boar during a hunting trip.
Bill Timmons, the former Hacienda HealthCare CEO who resigned after a patient in a vegetative state gave birth, had been accused of sexual harassment and poor treatment by employees since 2006, according to multiple reports.
Scully tells Miller she might be able to help him speak to the vegetative terrorist, while Mulder convinces Miller to give him magic mushrooms so he might be able to communicate with the brain-dead.
Her mother Terry helped her find Kali — but considering Terry is in a permanent, semi-vegetative state repeating the same phrase ad infinitum, it seems unlikely that she can provide Eleven with any new information.
It started with an epic Dothraki fight scene, then moved on to some dark magic, and finally finished with Daenerys being forced to smother a vegetative Khal Drogo (a pretty big moment in her character's development).
At the age of 11, the ESPN personality and former Paralympian was diagnosed with a neurological condition and an autoimmune disease, which affected her spinal cord and left her in a vegetative state for four years.
Our brains have a very specific response to human speech, but it wasn't known if seeing the response to speech on an EEG in a vegetative patient could be a good proxy for the fMRI scanning.
The family of the Arizona woman who gave birth to a baby boy last month, despite being in a vegetative state for a decade, is still coming to grips with how their daughter's trust was violated.
On last week's premiere, Arlen explained how she regained her ability to walk last year, after being diagnosed with transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, which left her in a vegetative state for almost four years.
The lizards fell from nearby trees after entering a vegetative state to wait out the colder temperatures — once the thermometer starts to rise again the iguanas will be revived, scampering off on their own without help.
"She was almost in a vegetative state and she was trying to communicate but all she
 could do was moan and make a little bit of 
noise," says former Gwinnett County Police
 Department detective James Sweeney.
Last week, Phoenix-based news outlet KPHO reported that the female patient,  who had been in a vegetative state for more than a decade after nearly drowning, gave birth to a baby boy on Dec. 29.
" Speaking to Fox News in September 2017, Warmbier's father Fred described seeing his son in the vegetative state and said, "It looked like someone had taken a pair of pliers and re-arranged his bottom teeth.
Otto Warmbier, a young American captured in North Korea, lay in a vegetative state for over a year following cardiopulmonary arrest, his body kept alive by an evil regime hoping to use him as a pawn.
Police have reportedly served a search warrant to test the DNA of all male employees at a private nursing facility in Arizona where a woman who was in a vegetative state for 14 years gave birth.
The findings, reported today in Current Biology, suggest that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)—already used to treat epilepsy and depression—could help to restore minimal consciousness even in patients who've spent years in a vegetative state.
But new technologies, including a machine nicknamed the "zip-and-zap," which uses both EEG monitoring and transcranial magnetic stimulation, have been used to detect brain activity in patients assumed to be in a vegetative state.
"At the end of the day that is the goal — a smaller footprint and more that is natural and vegetative," said Mia Monroe, a community liaison ranger at Muir Woods who has helped lead the restoration.
After a woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state for 14 years gave birth, law enforcement is seeking DNA from all male staffers at the Arizona health care facility that had been caring for her.
The mother, who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade after a near-drowning, was "unable to move [and] unable to communicate, in other words, she was helpless and incapacitated," according to Thompson.
The patients ranged in their severity: 12 were in a "minimally conscious state," three were in a "vegetative state," and six were "emerged from minimally conscious state," meaning they had some limited ability to move and communicate.
A former Arizona county attorney will lead an internal investigation into Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, which operates a nursing facility where a female patient in a long-term vegetative state gave birth to a child last month.
In the 2005 case of Florida woman Terri Schiavo, who was in a persistent vegetative state following an accident, the Catholic Church vocally opposed withholding artificial administration of food and water from Schiavo to hasten her death.
Hacienda HealthCare operates the long-term care facility for the developmentally disabled where the Native American woman, who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade after a near-drowning, gave birth on Dec.
Donald Trump said Thursday that Kim Jong Un "felt badly" about his country's torture of U.S. student Otto Warmbier, who was left in a vegetative state and later died from injuries suffered in a North Korean prison.
His doctors have been unable to diagnose a specific ailment, but they say that his condition has worsened and will continue to, and that he has been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year.
Alfie continued to live despite being in a "semi-vegetative state" as a result of a mystery degenerative neurological condition, surprising doctors who said further attempts to treat the boy would be futile, according to the BBC.
Forensic experts say autopsies can reveal important information about how or why a person died; in this case, determining what events may have led up to Warmbier's arrival in the United States in a persistent vegetative state.
In the case of such a person, Dworkin believed, it is no more legitimate or kind to contradict their advance directive in late-stage dementia than it would be if they were in a permanent vegetative state.
Ordinary North Koreans were unfamiliar with the name of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died days after being returned to the United States in a vegetative state after his detention in Pyongyang for stealing a poster.
But the most magical moment might be when Aunt Maggie Far Away wakes from a near-vegetative state and holds the four young Carney daughters rapt with tales of lost love and predictions of their own futures.
A persistent vegetative state includes those who seem awake but show no signs of awareness, while a minimally conscious state can include periods in which some response — such as moving a finger when asked — can be noted.
My son falls outside every avenue of hope – I have consulted a lawyer on his behalf, but because he is not in a persistent vegetative state he doesn't fit the British legal qualification for end of life.
Within a few short months, she had fallen into a vegetative state and was eventually diagnosed with two extremely rare autoimmune diseases — Transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis — which caused inflammation in her brain and spinal cord.
On Monday's guilty pleasure night, the paralympian — who spent four years in a vegetative state after being diagnosed with transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis— shared that she was bullied for being the new kid in a wheelchair.
Parents of patients at the Phoenix-based health care facility, where a female patient in a vegetative state for more than a decade, reportedly gave birth to a son last month, say they are shocked and seeking answers.
The woman, who is in her 20s and had been a long-term patient at the Hacienda Healthcare center after suffering an injury that left her in a vegetative state, went into labor on the afternoon of Dec.
Medical experts define a vegetative state as a condition in which the part of the brain that controls thought and behavior no longer works, but vital functions such as the sleep cycle, body temperature control and breathing persist.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The mother of a quadriplegic French man who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade brought her case to the United Nations on Monday, seeking diplomatic pressure for maintaining his life support.
The police in Phoenix have opened an investigation into allegations that a woman in a vegetative state at a private nursing facility was sexually assaulted and gave birth to a child last month, the authorities said Friday. Sgt.
The diversity of brain signals is a mathematical index for the level of consciousness; people who are awake have more diverse brain signal activity than people who are asleep, under anesthesia, or in a vegetative state, for example.
A court filing by the family of a woman who gave birth while in a long-term vegetative condition in an Arizona nursing facility states that according to doctors who examined her, the woman had likely been pregnant before.
Two doctors responsible for the care of a woman in a long-term vegetative state who gave birth last month are no longer working with patients after one was suspended and the other resigned, according to the Arizona facility.
" The mother was identified Tuesday by San Carlos Apache Tribe Chairman Terry Rambler as a member of the tribe, which confirmed in a statement that she "has been in a persistent vegetative state and coma for over a decade.
LONDON — Families and doctors of patients in a persistent vegetative state will no longer need permission from a court to withdraw end-of-life care if both the relatives and the doctors agree, Britain's highest court ruled on Monday.
But a review of people in vegetative states found that only 8 out of nearly 40 studies included repeated testing for awareness using various brain imaging techniques, and only one did any kind of systematic assessment over multiple days.
Manslaughter charges could not be filed in one fatality, that of Tony Bland, who died after spending nearly four years in a vegetative state, because too much time had passed between the events at the stadium and his death.
On a beach in Australia, Owen writes, he had an epiphany: To make a strong case that some vegetative patients were thinking and feeling he would have to catch their brains in the act of making a willful decision.
An Arizona health care facility is investigating what it calls a "deeply disturbing incident" that a local television station has said involved the alleged sexual assault of a patient in a vegetative state, resulting in the birth of a baby.
Her family said Tuesday in a statement released through their attorney that the woman "is not in a coma," despite assertions by police she's in a vegetative state and the medical records that say she has been unresponsive for decades.
But it does mean that the binge can cause the onset of a sort of vegetative state, where the next episode is always there to welcome you after the previous one ends, and it's all the easier to just keep going.
So grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy a ride to the edge of the universe as understood by astronomers 57 years ago, a time when Venus was a "total mystery" and it was "reasonably certain" that Mars harbored vegetative life.
"If we knew she could have a happy and healthy life, we wouldn't be as panicked about the future, but we're looking at five to seven years of our child suffering, followed by a vegetative state, followed by death," Dave says.
As Arizona authorities investigate the sexual assault of a woman at a nursing facility who gave birth to a boy while in a vegetative state for more than a decade, the question of how her pregnancy went unnoticed remains unanswered.
Herring's touch on the channel appeared in its first year in a two-hour special on Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who had spent half her life in a vegetative state and became the face of the right-to-die debate.
He could, of course, overdose on the pain pills he takes on a daily basis, but this is not guaranteed to work and could possibly leave him in a vegetative state, a burden he wouldn't want to leave for Ruby.
By far the best known was "Death Wish" (1972), a novel about a classic bleeding-heart liberal New Yorker whose wife and daughter are attacked by muggers; his wife is killed and his daughter is left in a vegetative state.
The chief executive of the corporation that runs a private nursing home in Arizona where a woman in a vegetative state was sexually assaulted and later gave birth to a child resigned on Monday, the company said in a statement.
Otto F. Warmbier, the college student imprisoned in North Korea and returned to the United States in a vegetative state, suffered extensive brain damage following interrupted blood flow and a lack of oxygen, according to the coroner who examined his body.
Indeed, at least one study indicated an alarming rate of misdiagnosis: it found that 41 percent of patients with traumatic brain injury who were in chronic care and thought to be in the vegetative state were in fact in MCS.
Trump condemned North Korea's "brutal regime" last year after the death of Otto Warmbier -- a 22-year-old American student who was detained for 17 months in North Korea, where his family believes he was tortured into a vegetative state.
We also created living wills that explain our wishes for things like life support and medical care if we end up in a coma, vegetative state, or any other major injury or illness where we can&apost make our own directions.
A nurse at a Phoenix nursing home who had been assigned to care for a woman in a vegetative state who was raped and later gave birth to a child was charged on Wednesday with sexual assault, the police said.
The British neuroscientist is also taking what he's learned by working with vegetative patients and applying it to other types of patients, like comatose people, playing them audio from a scene from the movie Taken as they lie inside a scanner.
Jenny, who asked that her last name not be used, decided to seek an abortion after she found out her baby had a major heart defect that would likely leave him in a vegetative state, dependent on a ventilator and feeding tube.
Tom Evans, 21, said his son, 23-month-old Alfie Evans, has continued to live after being taken off of support systems, despite being in a "semi-vegetative state" as a result of a mystery degenerative neurological condition, according to the BBC.
As outrage spreads over the revelation that a 29-year-old woman who'd been in a vegetative state for more than a decade unexpectedly gave birth last month at an Arizona nursing facility, it's been twinned with a parallel — and unanswered — question.
The hospital and doctors treating him in Liverpool say that Alfie suffers from a degenerative neurological condition that is certainly fatal, that he is in a semi-vegetative state and that the only humane course of action is to let him die.
Court records in the case of a woman in a long-term vegetative state who gave birth last month in an Arizona nursing facility reveal that her last doctor's examination took place more than eight months prior to the birth, PEOPLE confirms.
A review by another group of scientists of 19613,21961 patients with disorders of consciousness, which can include people anywhere on the spectrum from vegetative to minimally conscious, found similar statistics: about 22018 percent were able to modify their brain activity, suggesting awareness.
Mr. Lambert's wife and her supporters point to multiple medical assessments that found her husband to be in an irreversible vegetative state, and to court rulings that said artificial means of keeping him alive constituted "unreasonable obstinacy" as defined by French law.
State investigators in Arizona are examining $22 million in possible Medicaid fraud at the parent company of a Phoenix nursing center where a woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth to a boy in December, according to court records.
The case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state before her feeding tube was removed in 2005, stoked further debate in the United States and beyond about a person's right to live or die.
PARIS — Just hours after doctors stopped artificially feeding and hydrating a 42-year-old Frenchman who has spent more than a decade in a vegetative state, a French court ruled late on Monday night that he must be put back on life support.
She had been thought to be in the "vegetative state" — the term commonly used to define the unconscious brain state most of us associate with the right to die movement and the legacies of Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan and Terri Schiavo.
Later, when asked about the treatment of Otto Warmbier, an American student who spent 17 months in North Korean detention before being returned to the US in a vegetative state and subsequently dying, Trump denied Kim had been aware of the incident.
However, agave plants can also reproduce asexually in two different ways: either by vegetative propagation, during which a genetically identical plant grows from part of the original plant; or by producing tiny clone-like growths called bulbils , which are later harvested and re-planted.
The three men — Kim Hak-song, Kim Sang-duk, also known as Tony Kim, and Kim Dong-chul — are the last American prisoners in North Korea, after college student Otto Warmbier was released back to the U.S. in a vegetative state in June 2017.
She is confused about her priorities and it leads her to make bad decisions, which, if you're a woman, leads you to end up spoonfeeding your vegetative abusive ex-husband in a shack while your swoopy-haired boyfriend gallivants around botching crimes and cover-ups.
PARIS, July 8 (Reuters) - A French quadriplegic patient who had been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, and whose condition sparked a legal to-and-fro over whether to end his life support, died on Thursday, two lawyers for his relatives said.
PARIS — A top court in France on Friday paved the way to remove life support from a man who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, after a yearslong legal battle in a landmark case on the right to die.
Ms. Lambert and her supporters point to multiple medical assessments that found her husband to be in an irreversible vegetative state, and to court rulings that said that artificially feeding and hydrating him to keep him alive constituted "unreasonable obstinacy" as defined by French law.
In 2012, 15 years after the assault, he heard of a miracle worker named Adrian Owen, a scientist renowned for scanning the brains of vegetative patients and finding what he believed were signs of consciousness — of minds trapped inside bodies longing to break out.
The police collected the DNA of male employees of a private nursing home in Arizona this week as they broadened the investigation into allegations that a woman in a vegetative state there who gave birth to a child last month had been sexually assaulted.
"We were told by a neurologist and another doctor that Calen is never going to eat on his own again, he'll never breathe on his own again, and he'll be stuck in a vegetative state the rest of his life," Caleb's dad, Ben Clausen, told the station.
This season, fans and viewers learned that Arlen slowly regained the ability to speak, eat, walk, and move after being diagnosed at age 11 with a neurological condition and an autoimmune disease which affected her spinal cord and left her in a vegetative state for four years.
Now, the Michigan mother of five who was diagnosed with glioblastoma — an aggressive, rapidly growing malignant tumor that can affect the brain and spinal cord —  lies in a "vegetative state" in a Michigan hospital, inching toward death so her unborn child can have a chance at life.
The family of an Arizona woman who gave birth last month in a long-term care facility issued a statement saying she is "not in a coma," despite assertions by police she's in a vegetative state and medical records stating she has been unresponsive for decades.
The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network—an organization founded by the parents and siblings of Terri Schiavo, who was in a persistent vegetative state for fifteen years and became a cause célèbre for the right-to-life movement—offered to use its contacts to find a facility.
While representing the United States at the Winter Olympics in South Korea earlier this year, he brought along the father of Otto Warmbier, an American university student who was imprisoned in North Korea and died shortly after his return to the United States in a vegetative state.
Trump also took aim at President Barack Obama for his handling of the captivity of two Americans: Kayla Mueller, who was killed by Islamic State fighters, and Otto Warmbier, who was arrested in North Korea and died after arriving back to the United States in vegetative state.
Decisions on whether to withdraw end-of-life care are made for thousands of patients each year, the National Health Service reported, though it was not clear how many were in a persistent vegetative state, or in how many cases the families and doctors were in agreement.
Trump has also bragged to his wealthy friends about his relationship with Kim, who is known to have adopted brutal tactics for consolidating power and who oversaw the detainment of American student Otto Warmbier, who returned to the US in a vegetative state and died soon thereafter.
The seniors who witnessed Warmbier's plainspoken and heartfelt oration recoiled years later when they saw the news photos of their old friend weeping during what North Korea called a trial and when they saw images of him being carried off of a plane while in the vegetative state.
" Referring specifically to the case of Otto Warmbier -- a 22-year-old American college student who died Monday after being released from North Korean captivity in a vegetative state -- Mattis said, "there's no way that we can look at a situation like this with any kind of understanding.
Meanwhile, the dictator that Trump can't stop praising is the same man who had his half-brother murdered in plain sight and demanded a $2 million payment for the "medical care" of the late Otto Warmbier, the young American who was released from North Korea in a vegetative state.
Comprehensive new anti-sexual violence laws were passed in 2013, which introduced the death penalty for fatal rape cases or attacks that cause a victim to fall into a "persistent vegetative state," as well as making it illegal for police officers to fail to investigate sexual assault cases.
The landscape bristles with frozen cascades of green, blue, brown, and white, crystalizing here and there into visible figures — a sinuous, levitating swan, an anthropomorphic dove — while the gloomy crags and vegetative draperies, playing with colors and shadow and light, give off faint hints of coalescing human faces and forms.
But Arlen — who was 11 when she was diagnosed with a neurological condition and an autoimmune disease, which affected her spinal cord and left her in a vegetative state for four years — has only been walking again for less than two years and has no feeling in her legs or feet.
Tommy Thompson has been a public servant for nearly four decades but he's never seen or heard of such a "horrific crime" as the sexual assault investigation of a patient in a vegetative state for more than a decade at an Arizona-based nursing facility giving birth on Dec. 29.
There are likely thousands of people around the world who have been incorrectly diagnosed as vegetative—considered nothing more than the husks of their former selves, with no internal thoughts—when in fact they are present in some capacity, stuck inside bodies that don't cooperate, with no way to communicate.
It was a stunning twist in the case of the man, Vincent Lambert, a nurse who was left in a vegetative state after a motor vehicle accident in 2008 and whose situation has bitterly divided his family and put him at the center of a right-to-die debate in France.
Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa) The Dothraki leader Khal Drogo died for several reasons: because of a nasty wound infection; because of the deceptive witch Mirri Maz Duur, who pretended she would save him; and finally, because his grieving wife, Daenerys Targaryen, smothered him to free him from a permanent vegetative state.
In an exclusive clip from Monday's episode of TLC's Mama Medium, the empathic psychic medium visits a woman by the name of Esmerelda, a mother of three who suffered a massive heart attack and several strokes after going into the hospital for a simple procedure, leaving her in a semi-vegetative state.
There could be anywhere from 22010,2911 to 236,22015 people in minimally conscious states currently in the U.S. In 220, Owen and his team put a woman who was diagnosed as vegetative into an fMRI scanner, which can help doctors infer brain activity by recording blood flow, and asked her to imagine playing tennis.
The Montecito Fire Protection District works with residents to reduce vegetative fuels along roadsides, create "fuel breaks" — essentially areas where native shrubs have been thinned or removed — at strategic locations on private property, and harden homes against embers by putting screens over vents and replacing siding and roofs with less flammable materials.
This could also be applied to see whether emotion patterns change in children as they age, used for those with mental disorders such as schizophrenia who claim to feel differently than what they are experiencing, or even used for individuals in a vegetative state to determine whether they are still experiencing emotions within a coma.
He did not abandon the warmth he's shown toward Kim over the past eight months, even going as far to say he took Kim at his word when he denied knowledge of North Korea's detention of Otto Warmbier, the American student captured there only to later be returned to his family in a vegetative state.
It's really, really, really bad there, and by not letting us come to Earth and possess people—because they're mostly possessing people who've been brain dead, in vegetative states and comas, or people who are really severely mentally ill, people who are not leading much of a life—they're like, 'You are perpetuating a holocaust against us.
The 22-year-old, who, at age 11, was diagnosed with a neurological condition and an autoimmune disease, which affected her spinal cord and left her in a vegetative state for four years, was rehearsing her week eight Argentine tango with pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy when the whole right side of her body went into a spasm.
In court battles in America and elsewhere, when families have sought to have feeding tubes removed from relatives who are in a persistent vegetative state, the church has often been opposed (though it now condemns only active measures to hasten death, rather than patients' decisions to reject treatment, or death that is hastened by pain relief).
Otto Warmbier's parents have spoken out after President Trump stated that he took North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "at his word" after Kim denied any hand in Warmbier's death, which occurred after the American college student spent 17 months in captivity in North Korea and was returned to the U.S. in 2017 in a vegetative state.
Then someone else soon enters the room who, from the other side of a flimsy dividing curtain, can hear Karla's raunchy musings on masturbation, and they do not sit well with him: Don (Erik Lochtefeld), a lanky, middle-aged millionaire who dresses like a homeless person and who's there to visit his mother, the vegetative-seeming Geena (Jacqueline Sydney).
When he was 9 years old, in July 2005, his father attempted to murder his mother, "leaving her in a vegetative state and making me an orphan to this day," he explains in a series of questions and answers published on the website Poets & Quants, which named him to its 2018 Best and Brightest list in April.
Judge Beryl A. Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that North Korea was "liable in the torture, hostage taking and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier," who was returned to the United States in June 2017 in a vegetative state and died later that month when he was removed from life support.
In order to do that, Trump is willing to say and do whatever is needed -- up to and including giving a violent dictator a pass on the wrongful imprisonment and mistreatment of an American college student who, after being held for 18 months, was returned to the United States in a vegetative state and died days later.

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