One of the more horrifying disorders one can experience is locked-in syndrome, in which a person is conscious, but cannot move or cannot communicate. Because of the lack of communication, caregivers often don't know the...

(Photo: Wake the Jake)35-year old Jake Booth of Bo...  ...neumonia, he had a heart attack, then fell into a coma .Booth spent 48 days in the coma before becoming conscious again. Doctors were wor...

People survive and recover from comas fairly often, but the odds of recovery depend on...  ...th of time they are incapacitated. The longer the coma , the lower the odds of recovery. The ten (actuall...  ...people in this list are all very different: their comas lasted from a fe...

(Photo: Europics)Here’s your heart-warming n...  ...r going a week without sleep, he fell into a deep coma and remained in that state for over a year.There...

Soy sauce is tasty, but apparently it can also be...  ...anti-seizure medication, and he was already in a coma  when he was taken to the hospital where Carlberg...  ...o normal after about five hours. He remained in a coma for three days, but woke up on his own....

Twenty three years ago, a car crash left Rom Hoube...  ...concluded that he was in a vegetative state or a coma . Except that they were wrong: he was conscious th...  ...said Mr Houben, now 46. Doctors used a range of coma tests, recognised worldwide, before reluctantly c...

I've always liked ABBA, and now I like 'em even mo...  ...heir music can miraculously awaken someone from a coma ! Here's the story of how 3-year-old Layla Towsey...  ...3-year-old Layla Towsey woke up from a meningitis coma , singing Mamma Mia:Ms Towsey [...] , said: "...

36 hours after drowning, wolf spiders were able to...  .... Apparently wolf spiders can put themselves into comas and shut down the metabolic processes that do not...

One Saturday in May, Ryan Finley tried to wake...  ...into cardiac arrest in her sleep and fell into a coma . After she was rushed to the hospital, doctors sa...