A severely brain-damaged woman in an unresponsive, vegetative state showed clear signs on brain imaging tests that she was aware of herself and her surroundings, researchers are reporting today, in a finding that could have far-reaching consequences for how unconscious patients are cared for and how their conditions are diagnosed.
Mental Activity Seen in a Brain Gravely Injured
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CINCINNATI — Investigators recovered 18 bone fragments near an old chimney where investigators believe the body of a developmentally disabled 3-year-old foster child was burned, a county coroner said Thursday.
The boy's foster parents, charged with killing him, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder.
Investigators Find Bone Fragments Believed to Be From Body of Ohio Foster Child
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