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12 hrs ago | Sky News

'Vegetative' Man 'Talks' Using His Thoughts

A patient presumed to be in a vegetative state for five years has been able to communicate with doctors using just his thoughts, according to a study.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

Mon Feb 08, 2010

Jamaica Gleaner

Laws of Eve - Can I make a living will?

A living will may be defined as a form of advance medical statement or directive, which specifies what types of medical treatment are desired in the event that a person becomes terminally ill or incapacitated.

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Sun Feb 07, 2010

ABC News

Still in There? New Scan for the Vegetative Offers Promise, Invites Controversy

For the brother of Terri Schiavo , Wednesday's news that a team of researchers in England were able to use a novel scanning technology to establish limited communication with a man in a persistent vegetative state was bittersweet.

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Sat Feb 06, 2010

Global Catholic Network EWTN

5-Feb-10 - ''Stop Dehydration Deaths,'' Says Terri Schiavo's...

St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb 4, 2010 .- Reacting to news of a breakthrough in brain scanning technology, Terri Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler is calling for a halt to removing hydration from brain-damaged patients who are thought to be in a persistent vegetative state.

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Related Topix: St. Petersburg, FL, Tampa Metro, World News, United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire County, England

Fri Feb 05, 2010

The Seattle Times

Brain activity detected in 'vegetative' patients

Many of the patients were labeled with the same diagnosis: "vegetative state." Their head injuries, teams of specialists had concluded, condemned them to a grim condition: alive yet devoid of awareness of the world around them.

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Thu Feb 04, 2010

AZCentral.com

Scan can show thought in vegetative patients

In a study certain to rekindle debate over life-sustaining care for those with grievous brain injuries, researchers report that five patients thought to be in a persistent vegetative state showed brain activity indicating awareness, intent and, in one case at least, a wish to communicate.

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Wed Feb 03, 2010

KSDK NewsChannel 5

Study: Vegetative brains show signs of awareness

Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them -- findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire County, England

Thu Jan 28, 2010

GroundReport.com

Post Shiavo and Insurance Company Lobbying: States and Courts Redefining Artificial Life Support

Recently, a story was related to me by a resident of the State of Louisiana that demonstrated just what is occuring after the death of Teri Schiavo - who died, of course, under a judicial fiat in Florida a few years ago deeming that feeding and hydration intubation also was a artificial life support, rather than the definition that had held and was ...

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Estate Planning, Opinion

Tue Jan 26, 2010

Deseret News

Coma stories prompt reflection

Far from resolving the argument between pro-life and pro-choice activists, the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v Wade only hardened the antagonists' positions.

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Related Topix: Abortion

Sun Jan 24, 2010

PerrSpectives

Cornyn Not Threatening Judges After SCOTUS Ruling

Apparently, judicial activism like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. On Sunday, Texas Senator John Cornyn told Fox News that the impact of the Supreme Court's Citizen United ruling, which erased decades of precedents on corporate political campaign financing, has "been overstated." Given the victory in Massachusetts this week that his National ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, Tom DeLay, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Supreme Court, US Senate, John Cornyn

Sat Jan 23, 2010

BlogsforTerri

The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Concert

Friends, many of you were with us during the battle for Terri Schindler Schiavo's life five years ago.

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Related Topix: Randy Travis, Country, Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Metro, Collin Raye

Fri Jan 22, 2010

The Independent

Terri Schiavo's parents give up their legal battle to keep her alive

As throngs of protesters gathered outside the Florida hospice where the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo has been without food or water for 10 days, her distraught parents apparently accepted for the first time that they had run out of legal options to save her life.

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Related Topix: US News, George Bush, US Politics, Tampa Metro

Sun Jan 17, 2010

Saint Augustine Record

Marchers protest abortion

The weather was kind Saturday, misting rather than pouring on the 1,000 or so participating in the annual March for Life St.

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Related Topix: St. Augustine, FL, Tampa Metro, Country, Van Zant, Tallahassee, FL, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University

Thu Jan 14, 2010

Scientific American

Reviving Consciousness in Injured Brains

Most scholars concerned with the material basis of consciousness are cortical chauvinists.

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Sat Jan 09, 2010

Examiner.com

Sarah Palin, tea parties and death panels in 2010

Sarah Palin, the numerous Tea party patriots, and last summer's warnings of potential unrepentant death panels taking hold of life-and-death medical decisions stirred up a nation and brought focus to one of the most important issues of our past decade.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, New Year's Day/Eve

Tue Jan 05, 2010

Neuroethics & Law Blog

Exploring Ethical Dualism

I recently published a paper in Neuroethics called, "It Takes Two: Ethical Dualism in the Vegetative State." In this paper I explore the possibility of ethical dualism, a type of ethical pluralism that I think might help us to answer the problems raised by cases like that of vegetative patients, such as Terri Schiavo and Lauren Richardson.

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Mon Jan 04, 2010

Citrus County Chronicle

State stories of the decade

A decade ago, we were all on edge, stockpiling bottled water, withdrawing a little extra cash and wondering if the Y2K bug was going to disrupt life as we knew it.

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Related Topix: Florida, 9, US Politics, US News, Brevard County, FL, Cape Canaveral, FL

Sun Dec 27, 2009

Free Republic

Wesley J. Smith: Case of Rom Houben Should Prompt Renewed Look at Terri Schiavo's Death

LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture.

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Mon Dec 14, 2009

WETM TV

Woman Fighting for Her Husband to Come Home

Sara Harvey sees a similarity between her situation and the Schiavo family's. Sara Harvey says her husband, Gary's, life is on the line.

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Sun Dec 13, 2009

North Jersey Media Group

Your final wish isn't always your doctor's command

The notion is growing that the institutional or individual conscience of a health professional trumps a patient's wishes when they conflict.

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Related Topix: Prison, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Opinion

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