Diabetic coma is a dangerous condition that can lead to unconsciousness and even death. Diabetic coma may affect 2% to 15% of all diabetics at least once in their lifetime and the condition that most ...

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 ...

In some cases, all it takes is a major blow to the side of the head. When somebody falls into a coma, they lose all motor functions. Brain activity slows significantly. In most cases, no external ...

"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 ...

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 ...

What is going on inside the heads of individuals in a coma has been steeped in mystery. Now, a new study finds coma patients have dramatically reorganized brain networks, a finding that could shed ...

Martin Pistorius, age 49, emerged from a mysterious coma with a tale of endurance, resilience, and an eventual triumph.1 His ...

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 ...