http://www.medindia.net/healthnews/Coma-news.asp Medindia largest health website in india. en-us Copyright 2012. All Rights Reserved. Fri, 25 May 2012 05:10:23 GMT http://www.medindia.net/news/robin-gibb-recovers-from-coma-wakes-up-to-cancer-100528-1.htm Robin Gibb who is still in intensive care after waking from coma, has been diagnosed of colorectal cancer, his doctor said on Sunday. Dr. Andrew Thillainayagam said the 'Bee Gee' star was being treated for advanced colorectal cancer and had caught pneumonia as his immunity had lowered after gruelling doses of chemotherapy and two operations. The 62-year-old singer fell into a coma last week after contracting pneumonia. Thillainayagam said that three days earlier he had warned Gibb's family that he may not wake up....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/robin-gibb-recovers-from-coma-wakes-up-to-cancer-100528-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Conversation-Coma-Affects-25-Percent-of-Brit-Couples-96135-1.htm A new survey says that despite living in an age of instant communication where people can be reached all over the world, one in four couples in UK speak to their partner for less than 10 minutes a day. Dubbed as 'conversation coma', increasing workloads are blamed for the downturn in people talking to their loved ones. According to the survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Bigham's ready meals, four percent of people completely ignore their partners and another one in four cannot remember the last time they sat down to dinner together....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Conversation-Coma-Affects-25-Percent-of-Brit-Couples-96135-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Student-Awakens-from-Coma-Hours-Before-Organ-Donation-95291-1.htm Sam Schmid, a 21-year old student at the University of Arizona, who was believed to be brain dead awoke from a coma shortly before he was being prepared for organ donation.In October, Sam was critically hurt in a Tucson car accident. He suffered injuries which could not be treated by the local hospital so he was airlifted to the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Phoenix where doctors performed surgery for a potentially lethal brain aneurysm. With no responsive signs, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Student-Awakens-from-Coma-Hours-Before-Organ-Donation-95291-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Manchester-United-Induced-Addisonian-Crisis-Could-Put-Fan-in-Coma-94877-1.htm A 58-year old Manchester United fan risks her life evrytime she watches her favorite team play. Doctors have diagnosed her as having a rare and life-threatening condition called Addisonian crisis, caused by a lack of stress hormone cortisol. It can lead to low blood pressure, coma and death.The lady experiences a range of nervous symptoms, including anxiety, palpitations, panic, light headedness and a sense of impending doom whenever the Red Devils are in action. The woman is now undergoing cortisol treatment to combat her symptoms....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Manchester-United-Induced-Addisonian-Crisis-Could-Put-Fan-in-Coma-94877-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Brit-Mum-Slips-into-Coma-After-Allergic-Reaction-to-Hair-Dye-93724-1.htm A British mother of two may have slipped into a permanent coma after she suffered from a near fatal allergic reaction to a hair dye. Julie McCabe had applied a popular brand of hair dye, L'Oreal Preference, and was rinsing it off when she started to feel unwell. Her father Keith Miller revealed that after rinsing off the dye, she told her husband that she was unable to breathe properly and had to be rushed to a hospital. The doctors told the family that she had suffered an allergic reaction ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Brit-Mum-Slips-into-Coma-After-Allergic-Reaction-to-Hair-Dye-93724-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Important-Similarities-Seen-Between-Coma-and-General-Anesthesia-78776-1.htm Three neuroscientists have said that the brain under general anesthesia isn't "asleep" as surgery patients are often told -- it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma. They have published an extensive review of general anesthesia, sleep and coma, in the Dec. 30 issue of the INew England Journal of Medicine/I. This insight and others reported in their review article could eventually lead to new approaches to general anesthesia and improved diagnosis and treatment for sleep abnormalities and emergence from coma....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Important-Similarities-Seen-Between-Coma-and-General-Anesthesia-78776-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Footie-Hero-Helps-Boy-Out-of-Coma-71235-1.htm Egged on by the possibility of a kickabout with his Premiership hero, a Brit teen emerged from a coma all set for footie. Sixteen-year-old Thomas Buckett had been in a coma for two weeks after he fell from a roof trying to fetch his football. The boy suffered 10 skull fractures in the May 30 incident. Since then he had been in a coma at an intensive care unit, where players of his beloved Stoke City team visited him. Defender Andy Wilkinson, Thomas's favourite player, was ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Footie-Hero-Helps-Boy-Out-of-Coma-71235-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Dad-Wakes-Up-from-Coma-After-Daughter-Plays-Flute-70905-1.htm In some stunning news, a father who was badly injured after he was thrown off his motorbike came out of a coma, thanks to his daughter's flute playing. Mark Bell failed to recover after suffering a broken back, bleeding in the brain, punctured lung and 12 broken ribs. Doctors insisted his wife Fleur to talk to him in a hope that he would wake up. But five days later with no sign of recovery, Fleur taped daughter Rebecca playing the flute. Rebecca earlier used to drive her father ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Dad-Wakes-Up-from-Coma-After-Daughter-Plays-Flute-70905-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Belgian-Coma-Patient-Unable-to-Communicate-By-Computer-Doctor-65357-1.htm The Belgian patient Rom Houben who was wrongly diagnosed as comatose for 23 years cannot communicate by computer, his neurologist Steven Laureys told AFP Saturday. Laureys of Liege university, who recently presented a study on the method known as "facilitated communication", concluded that it "did not work in the majority of cases". Facilitated communication involves holding the hand of paralysed but conscious patients above a computer keyboard as a medical assistant taps the relevant letters when they observe any minute pressure....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Belgian-Coma-Patient-Unable-to-Communicate-By-Computer-Doctor-65357-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Belgian-Patient-Thought-to-be-in-Coma-for-23-Years-Found-to-be-Conscious-61349-1.htm A Belgian man who was thought to be in coma for more than 2 decades was infact conscious, according to Doctors. Medical staff at a hospital in Liege, eastern Belgium, believed Rom Houben had been left in a vegetative state by a serious car accident in 1983, but he was simply paralysed and unable to communicate. The former engineering student and martial arts enthusiast, now 46, told the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel that he meditated to pass the long years trapped in his own body. Houben's ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Belgian-Patient-Thought-to-be-in-Coma-for-23-Years-Found-to-be-Conscious-61349-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Babys-Voice-Motivates-Brit-Coma-Mother-to-Recover-59124-1.htm The voice of her baby inspired Karen Morrisroe-Clutton, living in coma after contracting E. coli, to fight the illness and recover fast. Morrisroe-Clutton' son Oliver was just 10 weeks old when she was affected by the bug in July end. The 32-year-old woman stayed at the Wrexham Maelor hospital for 67 days, but she believes it was hearing the voice of her child that helped her recover. "I did know that I was dying at one point. In fact because I was having all this treatment I knew it ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Babys-Voice-Motivates-Brit-Coma-Mother-to-Recover-59124-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/3-Year-Old-Girl-In-Coma-Wakes-Up-Singing-Mamma-Mia-53661-1.htm A three-year-old girl fell into a coma after being struck down by meningitis, but stunned her family when she woke up five days later - singing Abba hit Mamma Mia. Layla Towsey was so ill after getting the brain bug she had been put on a life support machine. The little girl's family was told to give her a final kiss goodbye when she fell into coma. However, it was far from the final curtain for Layla, who regain consciousness singing Abba tune. "We had been preparing ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/3-Year-Old-Girl-In-Coma-Wakes-Up-Singing-Mamma-Mia-53661-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Mahjong-Player-Slips-Into-Coma-After-Playing-32-Hours-Straight-52359-1.htm ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Mahjong-Player-Slips-Into-Coma-After-Playing-32-Hours-Straight-52359-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Italian-Region-To-Let-Woman-In-Coma-Die-46614-1.htm Italy's northwestern Piedmont region is poised to disregard government objections and help a woman, in a coma for 17 years, to die following a court decision, a newspaper report said Wednesday. "Eluana's tragic story has become unbearable for a civilised country, from a legal and human point of view," said Piedmont's governor Mercedes Bresso, a member of the centre-left Democrat Party. Eluana Englaro's father had fought up to Italy's highest appeal court for the right to have her life support system removed....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Italian-Region-To-Let-Woman-In-Coma-Die-46614-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Attenborough-Making-Progress-After-Slipping-into-Coma-45951-1.htm Lord Attenborough, who directed the Oscar winning movie 'Gandhi', is "making progress " in recovering after a fall at his home. The 85-year-old filmmaker slipped into a coma following the accident in which he hit his head on December 18. He is out of coma and in a stable condition. "Richard Attenborough is making progress and remains in a stable condition," the Telegraph quoted a spokesman at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London, as saying. The fall has raised concerns ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Attenborough-Making-Progress-After-Slipping-into-Coma-45951-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Chinese-Man-Wakes-Wife-from-10-year-Coma-by-Nibbling-Her-Toe-44773-1.htm A Chinese man was left stunned when he woke his wife from a 10-year coma by nibbling on her toes. Zhang Kui's wife of 27 years Lu Fengshuang fell into coma after she suffered a head injury in an industrial accident. Zhang, of Shenyang, who had tried everything under the heaven to wake his wife from playing music, speaking to her, tickling her, finally woke her up by nibbling on her toes. "I then recalled someone saying that the feet are the home for many nerves, I wondered if I could ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Chinese-Man-Wakes-Wife-from-10-year-Coma-by-Nibbling-Her-Toe-44773-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Research-Magnetic-Stimulation-Roused-Patient-from-Coma-42994-1.htm For the first time transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used by experts at the US Department of Veterans Affairs in Chicago to bring a patient out of a coma. Theresa Pape, who helped treat Josh Villa, has revealed that TMS is the same approach that has been investigated as a way of treating migraine, stroke, Parkinson's disease, and depression in the past, with some promising results. Villa had suffered massive head injuries when his car met with an accident about three years ago, and consequently fell into a coma....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Research-Magnetic-Stimulation-Roused-Patient-from-Coma-42994-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/On-the-Verge-of-a-Breakthrough-to-Communicate-With-Patients-in-Coma-38264-1.htm An insight by a British scientist has suggested a new way to communicate with people in coma. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference witnessed Martin Monti of the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Science Unit in Cambridge explaining his recent work which could help communicate with people who are in a vegetative state. A study conducted in 2006 pertaining to a woman in coma for 6 months had intrigued Martin. The scans showed that the woman played imaginary tennis and was even able to respond to commands....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/On-the-Verge-of-a-Breakthrough-to-Communicate-With-Patients-in-Coma-38264-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Austrian-Cellar-Girl-Recovers-from-Coma-and-Reunites-With-Family-37838-1.htm Austrian cellar girl Kerstin Fritzl has recovered from coma and is reunited with her mother Elisabeth. The 19-year-old, who was in a coma for weeks, was moved to the hospital where the rest of her family are recovering. They are all expected to stay there for several more months and under psychiatric care as they adapt to the real world. Apart from her mother, 42, the only people Kerstin had seen before were her two brothers Steven, 18, Felix, 5, and her jailor father Josef Fritzl, 73. She has never ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Austrian-Cellar-Girl-Recovers-from-Coma-and-Reunites-With-Family-37838-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Grandaughters-Scream-Miraculously-Wakes-Up-Coma-Victim-37717-1.htm An Indian origin woman, who was in a coma for six weeks, miraculously woke up from her condition by her granddaughter's scream. 56-year-old Devbai Patel was left unconscious after a lorry hit her in a crash, which killed the driver. In order to make her respond, doctors reduced her sedatives and her family also talked to her, but she showed no reaction. Thus, the medical staff suggested she might respond to her granddaughter Leela, aged 23 months. When Leela was brought in, she ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Grandaughters-Scream-Miraculously-Wakes-Up-Coma-Victim-37717-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Johnny-Depp-Vows-to-Revive-His-Fan-from-Coma-34569-1.htm American actor Johnny Depp has vowed to help a British girl who is fighting for her life after spending five months in coma. Sophie Wilkinson a 17-year-old girl from Southampton, England, was critically injured in a car crash last year (07), and her parents decided to seek Depp's help, as he is their daughter's favourite. They wrote to the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star asking for his help, and the actor in turn was so moved by their dilemma that he agreed to aid them by recording a voice message ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Johnny-Depp-Vows-to-Revive-His-Fan-from-Coma-34569-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Spice-Girl-Geri-Halliwell-s-Singing-Brings-a-Baby-Girl-Out-of-Coma-34055-1.htm Spice Girl Geri Halliwell turned out to be a saviour when she personally sang for a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and brought the child out of coma. Jessica Knight was stabbed 30 times in a frenzied attack as she walked alone through a park close to her home, and lay in coma for six days. She was fighting for life on the surgeon's table, and her parents stayed by her bedside desperately waiting for her to recover. Geri sang a few lines for Jessica during a surprise hospital visit, and the little girl's body showed some movement....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Spice-Girl-Geri-Halliwell-s-Singing-Brings-a-Baby-Girl-Out-of-Coma-34055-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Girl-in-Coma-After-Being-Hit-on-the-Head-by-Teacher-33205-1.htm Corporal punishments in Indian schools are assuming extremely disturbing proportions. A 15-year-old girl is in coma for over a month now after she received a vicious knock on her head from her teacher, say her parents. And what was the provocation? Nothing more than that she would not attend tuition classes conducted by the teacher. Tuition classes are money-spinning propositions and in many cases students are coerced into attending them. Rinky Kaushik, a resident of Mayur Vihar, a New Delhi ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Girl-in-Coma-After-Being-Hit-on-the-Head-by-Teacher-33205-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/East-Timor-President-to-Remain-in-Induced-Coma-After-Surgery-32927-1.htm East Timor President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta will remain in an induced coma until at least Thursday, doctors at a Darwin hospital said on Tuesday evening. They said that Ramos-Horta is in a serious but stable condition following Monday's assassination attempt in Dili, during which he was shot two or three times by rebel troops at his residence. Surgeons operated on Dr. Ramos-Horta for up to three hours overnight to remove bullet fragments and repair his wounds. "His condition ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/East-Timor-President-to-Remain-in-Induced-Coma-After-Surgery-32927-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Polish-Man-Wakes-Up-to-New-World-After-19-Years-in-Coma-21581-1.htm WARSAW, A Pole who spent 19 years in a coma has woken up and will now have to adapt to a country where the communists are no longer in power, a television station announced Friday. Railwayman Jan Grzebski fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988, the private channel Polsat said. In an interview, Grzebski said that he owed his survival to his wife, Gertruda. "She's the one who always took care of me. She saved my life," he said. Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accident....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Polish-Man-Wakes-Up-to-New-World-After-19-Years-in-Coma-21581-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=19870 It was thought that hypoglycemic coma causes brain damage. On the contrary brain damage occurs only when glucose is given to treat the coma, as discovered by researchers from San Francisco VA Medical Center, during a study on rodents. The study results may have implications on the treatment of diabetics in hypoglycemic coma, though detailed research is necessary before it can be applied to humans. Insulin is an essential hormone that moves glucose from the bloodstream to individual cells, where it is broken down and used for energy....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=19870 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=13951 Patna: A doctor in a Bihar village was Monday battling for life after he was beaten by mobs, furious that a patient bitten by a snake had died during treatment. Dr. Satish Chandra Sharma, who was beaten virtually within an inch of his life at Sursand in Sitamarhi district, was in a coma, officials said. The incident took place Sunday, when Sharma's clinic was vandalised and set on fire by furious crowds. Shambhu Shah, a shop owner, was taken to Sharma after a snake bite. He reportedly died while Sharma was performing first aid....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=13951 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=10170 Movies often misrepresent coma, in a way that is powerful enough to change public perceptions about the same. If the trend were allowed to continue, it could have a dangerous impact on real-life situations involving coma, highlights a new study published in the latest issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. In a review of U.S. and foreign movies, only two out of 30 movies with characters in prolonged comas showed a reasonably accurate representation of ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=10170 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=7236 The US Government has stopped the removing of life support to an 11-year-old girl after doctors said her condition is improving after four months in a coma. The coma was allegedly caused by the beating she had received from her stepfather and adoptive mother. The girl had been on a respirator for a period of four months, and her coma was declared irreversible by doctors. The girl is showing signs of coming out of her vegetative state. Haleigh was comatose with severe brain injuries when she ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=7236 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=6565 British Medical Journal reports that television soaps or serials give a false picture about coma survival and recovery rates in coma patients. Researchers compiled 10 years data of sufferings felt by coma patients and found that the rate of survival and recovery shown in television soaps is not true as the study show that only 8% of coma patients in soaps died during coma for instance, compared with 50% upwards in real life. The recovery rate is also controversial, in which the soaps show that ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=6565 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=6557 American soap operas paint an improbably rosy picture of coma patients' survival and recovery, with potentially important consequences for viewers , says a study. Tracking storylines containing coma patients over 10 years, researchers found that soap opera patients were far more likely to survive a coma than in real life. And they were also much more likely to emerge unscathed. For instance, only 8% of soap land patients died during coma, compared with over 50% in real life. And all those who ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=6557 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=4211 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=4211