... his abdomen. The brain injury my precious son incurred when his motorcycle collided with a van left him in a persistent vegetative state. His friends and family abandoned him; his father and I grew old and exhausted from the daily struggle to ...

... these children and leaves an additional one-fourth with brain damage ranging from learning disabilities to a persistent vegetative state. Dr. Nicole Glaser, an assistant pediatrics professor at the University of California-Davis School of ...

... a Florida appeals court sided with her husband and allowed the device to be removed. Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years. Arkansas Democratic Reps. Snyder, Marion Berry and Mike Ross canceled events in Arkansas and ...

... operative phrase here was "persistent vegetative state." Senate Republican leader ... declared that she was not in a persistent vegetative state. House Republican leader ... Schiavo was indeed in a persistent vegetative ...

... governor's request followed the release Wednesday of an autopsy concluding that Terri Schiavo had been in a persistent vegetative state and revealed no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused before she collapsed. It left unanswered ...

... irreversible brain damage in a 1995 auto accident. Since February 1996, he has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state in a nursing home. His wife, Michele, told other relatives in June that she wanted to remove her husband ...

... Thursday after his wife, Michele, won a court battle with Finn's brother. Doctors have said Finn is in a persistent vegetative state from a 1995 car crash that left him unable to eat, care for himself or communicate. Gov. Jim Gilmore also ...

... Under Virginia law, food and water may be withheld from people like Finn who have been diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Finn, a Medicaid patient, has been in a Manassas nursing home since 1996. Marshall, a Republican, argued ...