A coma is a serious condition that can be caused by a number of problems, such as a traumatic brain injury, stroke, or drug overdose. A lot of what we think we know about it is based on TV portrayals, ...

Ebony Stevenson, 18, woke up from a four-day coma to find she had given birth to a baby girl. (Photo: SWNS) A teenager woke from a four-day coma to find that she had given birth to a baby despite not ...

Writer Emily Gordon was a carefree, tattooed 27-year-old living in Chicago in 2007 when she came down with what she thought was a garden-variety cold. (Getty Images) “I reacted how I always did when ...

"When I look at pictures of me in the coma, it seems unreal, and when I hear that my toe saved me, it's amazing," law student Sam Hemming said. This 22-year-old, once in a coma, is now being called a ...

Five years ago, we heard how a team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) had used ultrasound to seemingly "jump start" a patient out of a coma. At the time, the scientists wondered if ...

Diabetes can affect every part of your life, but one of the most severe and dangerous complications is a diabetic coma. It’s a medical emergency that demands immediate attention, and if left untreated ...

Though it might seem like being in a coma — either one that is medically induced or natural — is like sleeping, or getting knocked out by anesthesia, people who've come out of them describe ...

A diabetic coma, a severe complication of diabetes, occurs when blood sugar levels become dangerously high or low, leading to unconsciousness. This retrospective study reviewed 102 cases of ...