Doctors at Cambridge University's Medical Research Council's cognition and brain siences unit made startling doscovery when they managed to communicate with a man who was in a coma for seven years, The Guardian reported. The doctors devised a technique to enable the 29-year old comatose patient to answer simple questions as a yes or no, through the use of a hi-tech scanner, monitoring his brain activity.
The Supreme Court of India has granted permission for passive euthanasia for a 32-year-old man who has been in a coma for over 12 years, authorising the withdrawal of his artificial life support.
The Supreme Court of India has permitted the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for a 32-year-old man who has been in a coma for over 13 years following a traumatic brain injury.
The Supreme Court of India has allowed passive euthanasia for a 32-year-old man who has been in a permanent vegetative state since 2013, highlighting the legal and ethical considerations surrounding the right to die with dignity.
The Supreme Court has reserved its judgment on a plea seeking passive euthanasia for a man who has been in a comatose state for over 12 years after suffering a fall in 2013. The court heard arguments regarding the withdrawal of artificial life support and the ethical considerations involved.
A sedentary lifestyle and smoking are two of the many causes that are leading to stroke among young Indians. Abhishek Mande finds out just how real this health threat is, how to identify and avoid it.
"One can avoid expensive gimmicks and make films with a smaller budget," says filmmaker Subhadro Choudhury.
Recpaitalising banks through taxpayers' money will not solve the NPA problem.
'When it vanishes as a national force (meaning when it can no longer get sufficient votes to hold onto its symbol, the hand) it will not have been the first large Indian party to die,' says Aakar Patel.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra reserved its verdict on a plea seeking recognition of 'living will' made by a terminally-ill patient for passive euthanasia.
Aruna Shanbaug, a former nurse who lived in a vegetative state for the past 42 years after being brutally sexually assaulted at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai and became the face of the debate on euthanasia in India, died on Monday.
The distraught family of a comatose Sarabjit Singh was on Sunday allowed to have a glimpse of him from a distance at the hospital where he is being treated after a brutal assault in a Pakistani jail.
The bench laid down guidelines as to who would execute the will and how the nod for passive euthanasia would be granted by the medical board.
'Passive euthanasia is actually more important in the sense that the need to administer it arises every day in some hospital or the other. And it can be administered without a living will,' Vipul Mudgal, director of the NGO Common Cause -- which had filed a plea to declare 'right to die with dignity' as a Fundamental Right flowing from Article 21 or the Right to Life, -- tells Rediff.com's Swarupa Dutt.
Shoojit Sircar takes Rediff.com's Ronjita Kulkarni behind the sets of October, and right inside his beautiful mind.
The story does not have any subtlety, everything that the director wishes to convey has been overtly pronounced by the actors through their dialogues.
There are many life lessons to be learnt from the way Sharad Pawar handled the Maharashtra political crisis.
My sense is that we are in a situation similar to 2011-13, notes Debashis Basu.
How Rayna Arya, who became a victim of a hit-and-run at age 12, got back on her feet again.
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