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Coma

April 2022

  • Terry Wallis with his mother, Angilee Wallis, in a shot from a television program in 2003.

    Arkansas man who awoke from 19-year coma in 2003 has died aged 57

    Terry Wayne Wallis had been in a serious car accident but surprised doctors and family when he regained consciousness

October 2020

  • Karen James

    Experience
    Experience: I help coma survivors fill in the gaps

    For Covid patients, it was like waking up in an alien world. One wanted the football on TV, and there was none

May 2019

  • Helen Rudd

    Experience
    Experience: I woke up from a coma speaking French

    I still don’t know why I spoke French. I’ve never had any desire to visit France

September 2017

  • MRI scan of brain

    The long read
    How science found a way to help coma patients communicate – podcast

  • blurry image of a doctor looking down at a patient in a hospital bed

    The long read
    How science found a way to help coma patients communicate

June 2015

  • Cathy Rentzenbrink and her brother, Matty, as children

    'If anyone was going to wake from a coma, it was my brother'

    After her beloved brother was involved in a car accident, Cathy Rentzenbrink was determined to keep him alive. Would she feel the same eight years later?

February 2014

  • Mike Penning getting out of a car

    Minister apologises after woman in coma was told to find work

    Sheila Holt was contacted by the Department for Work and Pensions who invited her to attend 'intensive job-focused activity'

January 2013

  • Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon on his farm, photographed for G2.

    Ariel Sharon showing brain activity seven years into comatose state

    Former Israeli PM responding to external stimuli including son's voice and family pictures, say team of Israeli and US scientists

September 2011

  • Psychologist Dr Adrian Owen

    Neurophilosophy
    Detecting covert consciousness in the vegetative state

    Mo Costandi: Adrian Owen's pioneering research shows that some vegetative patients are conscious and responsive

April 2011

  • emery brown MIT anaesthesia anesthesia

    My bright idea
    Emery Brown: 'Aspects of anaesthesia are consistent with patients in a coma'

    Patients under anaesthetic have more in common with coma victims than somebody sleeping, Dr Emery Brown tells Lizzie Heathcote

September 2010

  • Claire Rytina

    A mother, lost and found

    Six years ago, Claire Robertson woke from a coma, surrounded by her husband and children. She had no idea who they were. Decades of family life had vanished from her memory, destroyed by a viral infection

July 2010

  • Richard Rudd

    Blink, and you live – doctors' message to man in a coma

    Richard Rudd, left paralysed following traffic accident, blinked three times to tell doctors he did not want to die

June 2010

  • Evie Wyld

    Once upon a life
    Once upon a life: Evie Wyld

    Evie Wyld has always known that as a toddler she fell into a coma with a life-threatening virus. She recovered eventually, but she has few memories of that time and her family has never spoken of it. Here, the novelist pieces together the drama of her parents' worst nightmare

April 2010

  • guru

    Guru cannot have written 'deathbed' statement, say family

    Family of late rapper Guru confirm that bizarre statement must be fake, as he had been in a coma since February

March 2010

  • Rapper Guru in coma after heart attack

    One of hip-hop's most celebrated MCs is reportedly in a coma after suffering a cardiac arrest

December 2009

  • phaedra

    Hans Werner Henze: A matter of life and death

    Blighted by illness and personal loss, German composer Hans Werner Henze has bounced back to create a career-defining work with Phaedra, writes Tom Service

  • Johnny Hallyday performing in Saint Etienne earlier this year.

    Johnny Hallyday in drug-induced coma after surgery

    'French Elvis' in hospital in Los Angeles as family seeks legal advice over original operation in Paris

  • Response
    Despite the doubts, we shouldn't dismiss the Rom Houben coma case

    Anne Emerson
    Response: I too used to be sceptical about facilitated communication. But my own research has convinced me of its merits, says Anne Emerson

November 2009

  • Jan Grzebski was diagnosed with a coma

    Between waking and sleeping: Falsely diagnosed coma cases

  • John Chilcot, the chairman of the Iraq war inquiry, at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre

    Guardian Daily
    Guardian Daily: Chilcot inquiry into Iraq war opens

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