Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a physician, questioned the diagnosis of a persistent vegetative state for Schiavo, based on video footage of the patient, for which he was criticized by ...

Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by ...

The brain is the final frontier. As I asked last week, have researchers even discovered the full anatomical structure and physiology of the brain? As one clinical psychologist told me, innovators are ...

Terri Schiavo was a Florida woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years. Her husband claimed she did not want to live on life support; her family disagreed, and their battle reached ...

As far as we can tell, doctors don't study nutrition. In fact, if you ask a regular medical doctor about the relationship between what you eat and how you feel, you're likely to get a condescending ...