Woman awakens after 6 years, slips back
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A woman who went into a vegetative state in November of 2000 awoke this week for three days, spoke with her family and a local television station before slipping back on Wednesday. "I'm fine," Christa Lilly told her mother on Sunday &#151; her first words in eight months. She has awakened four other times for briefer periods.
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Not long after 72-year-old Anne Beale Golsan had retired on disability from her job as a librarian, she put a stack of paid bills out for the mail, hung up a freshly pressed outfit and taped a note to the front of the house. "Don't come in by yourself. Get somebody to come with you. Sorry, Love Beale."
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A hysterectomy 11 years ago zapped Colleen Christensen&#39;s sexual desire. Now 55 years old and married for 33 years, Christensen said she used to worry that a lack of intimacy
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A woman who stopped dreaming after a stroke is helping researchers unravel the mysteries of sleep. The 73-year-old patient was admitted to hospital after a stroke disrupted blood flow to an area at the back of her brain, called the occipital lobe.
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By Edith Brady-Lunny and Sharon K. Wolfe, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 16--DANVERS -- A 72-year old Washington woman was identified Friday as the victim in a drowning Thursday at Spin Lake in rural Danvers.   Velma M.
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For nearly two years Jane Bissell struggled to get out of bed in the morning. Gripped by terrible headaches and fatigue, the Whangaparaoa woman thought it was the after-effects of chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
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In the months before she wound up in the emergency room, Deborah Turner was so exhausted she sometimes had to drag herself up the office stairs clinging to the railing. How, she wondered, had things gotten so bad? Four years earlier she had walked a 26.2-mile marathon. Now she was so short of bre...
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CINCINNATI - A woman who weighed more than 300 pounds noticed something strange happening to her body.  As she lost more than 60 pounds over several weeks without going on a diet, she said she could feel a large mass growing inside her. "It didn't feel normal," Grace Radtke said.
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After suffering a devastating stroke four years ago, Susan Brown was left in a wheelchair with little hope of walking again. Today, the 57-year-old Richmond woman has regained use of her legs and has begun to reclaim her life, thanks in part to encouragement she says she gets from an online "virt...
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A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and is learning to adapt to his new life, Polish media reported.
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On the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a survivor recalls her experiences at the camp.
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CANBERRA, Australia - A woman seduced and had sex with strangers while she slept and later had no recollection of her infidelities due to a sleeping disorder, her Sydney doctor said Thursday.    The middle-aged woman had no idea that she was sneaking from her house at night in search of sex with random strangers until her partner awoke, discovered she was missing from the bedroom, and found her having sex with another man, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital sleep medicine physician Peter Buchanan told The Sydney Morning Herald...
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Japanese Crown Princess Masako returned  to official duties on Sunday after more than a year of  seclusion stemming from a stress-related disorder.
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Cheryl Burke is back on her feet after a bout of abdominal pain.
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A woman in a vegetative state for   five months appeared in brain scans to imagine playing tennis   and to respond to commands, researchers reported on Thursday.
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She lost count of the vodka shots. It was New Year's Eve 2005, and for this high school freshman, it was time to party. She figured she'd be able to sleep it off -- she'd done it before. But by the time she got home the next day, her head was still pounding, her mouth was dry, and she couldn't fo...
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A woman whose epileptic fits have returned is told she will have to wait a year to be seen by a specialist.