“Persistent vegetative state” should not be used as a term for patients because it is offensive and dehumanising, a high court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Hayden issued the plea as he ruled ...

Mutism in older adults is not uncommon. It is often confused with severe depression, locked-in syndrome, and persistent vegetative state, but it is important to distinguish among them as the ...

But being in a persistent vegetative state, still warm and seemingly alive to the untrained onlooker, seemed to me like the ultimate state of limbo. That was a state my patient existed in as I ...

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The trial in the rape and murder case of a doctor commenced in a Kolkata court on Monday, three months after the medic's body ...

Earlier on November 4, the court had framed charges against Sanjay Roy under Sections 64 (rape punishable with rigorous ...

A statue commemorating the victim of the RG Kar rape-murder case was found shattered on Sunday morning at Kolkata's Medical ...

The RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder trial is set for daily hearings starting November 11, following the ...

KOLKATA: Eighty-seven days after the body of a woman medic was found at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a ...

Roy has been booked under Section 64 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (rape), Section 66 (punishment for causing death or ...