PHOENIX (KPNX) — The woman who gave birth at Hacienda Healthcare in Phoenix is not in a vegetative state or comatose, according to her family’s lawyer. John Micheaels, the attorney representing the ...

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 ...

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