Brief Awakening From a Coma
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A woman who has been in a coma-like state for more than six years awoke for three days this week.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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The trauma center's radio crackles an alert: A 34-year-old woman injured in an auto wreck is being brought in by helicopter. Parts of her scalp have been torn back, exposing her skull. Broken bones may be sticking out through the skin of her left leg. Her injuries may help save the lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (04/11/2004) - There were conflicting reports of Palestinian President Yasser Arafatâs health on Thursday, as various sources claimed that he had slipped into a coma or was being anesthetized after having lost consciousness three
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Ambien, the popular sleep medication known for its odd side effects, helps a 48-year-old woman out of a near vegetative state. In Bodyhack.
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Some reports from Paris say Arafat has slipped into a coma. There have been other reports through the day that Arafat&#39;s still unexplained condition has become worse and he is in the ICU.
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A lot has happened in the other world since Friday. That would be the world outside of Florida. Maybe by sometime today, this area and this state will get back to feeling more like part of that world.
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A critically ill Wisconsin teenager who was bitten by a bat recovered after being put into a drug-induced coma and being given antiviral drugs.
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The nightmares didn't start until months after Alicia Flores returned home. The images were stark and disturbing: In one dream, a dying Iraqi man desperately grabbed her arm. In another, she was lost in a blinding sandstorm.
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HEALTH STATUS: Yasser Arafat is in a coma and his condition worsened overnight. Hospital spokesman Gen. Christian Estripeau did not issue a prognosis but suggested the chances of a recovery were poor.
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How to heal when the inexplicable occurs? Sometimes the right response is acting normal
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LOS ANGELES - Rodney Dangerfield has been in a coma for a couple of weeks after undergoing heart surgery, but has begun to show some awareness, his wife said Monday.    The 82-year-old comedian was stable and had been breathing on his own for 24 hours, Joan Dangerfield said in a statement released by the comic's publicist, Kevin Sasaki...
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Along with the potentially devastating physical damage that a stroke can cause, a little known and rare consequence can be the loss of dreaming.
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NEW YORK  - Patients in a minimally  conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who  demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may  retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they  can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings  from a small study suggest.
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A South Korean boxer who lost consciousness after winning his WBO intercontinental flyweight bout was in a coma with a brain injury.
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The patient awoke early yesterday morning and the doctor could not believe what he saw and heard. The man hadn't made a sound or opened his eyes in seven years. And there he was, wide awake, asking for a bowl of ice cream, and wondering how his hair could have thinned so much overnight.
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(HealthDayNews) -- A blow or jolt to the head can disrupt the normal function of the brain. Doctors often call this type of impact a concussion or closed head injury, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.