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, ...

Falling into a coma might sound like the ultimate way to catch up on sleep—but survivors have revealed it's anything but restful. Dozens of people who have woken from comas shared their experiences on ...

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 ...

Every year thousands of people find themselves in a coma in the UK. Whilst some tragically die before awakening, others regain consciousness - some returning to complete health whilst others require ...

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 British woman was forced to give birth six weeks early — and while in a coma — because a non-cancerous brain tumor she had for years suddenly burst. Dental hygienist Emma Taylor, 33, abruptly became ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Italian man who spent two years supposedly unconscious in a deep coma, written off by doctors as nearly-dead, awoke saying he heard and understood everything happening around him during the long ...