Word: comas
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remained in a medically induced coma last night after suffering a major stroke on Wednesday, and Israelis and Palestinians alike began to consider seriously a political future that probably would not include the prominent leader. “[Sharon] will not continue to be prime minister, but maybe he will be able to understand and to speak,” José Cohen, a neurosurgeon who has performed multiple operations on the prime minister, told the Jerusalem Post. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, the director of the Jerusalem hospital where Sharon is being treated, said that Sharon...
...still conscious when his convey arrived in Jerusalem 48 min. later, but his condition soon deteriorated. An MRI scan revealed a serious brain hemorrhage. Sharon underwent a two-stage operation that lasted more than eight hours. After another surgery on Friday morning, Sharon was in a medically induced coma and attached to a respirator. "Sharon won't come back to be a decision-making person," Moty Ravid, professor of medicine at Tel Aviv University, said on Friday. "His chances of functioning at these levels are close to zero...
...best results. He's a neurologist at the University of Illinois Medical Center who specializes in epilepsy. One day a colleague handed him a tape of the same Mozart sonata that Rauscher used in her studies. The next morning, he tried it out on a patient in a coma, and was stunned to find that it substantially reduced the frequency of seizures. He followed up with a series of studies on 36 patients; 29 of them responded in the same way to the music. "There's no question about it, about 80% of the time it has a beneficial effect...
...We’re on a blind date, Eliz. I’m seeing you with all new eyes, like a blind man who has been woken up from his coma...
...midnight screening of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” last Friday. Or maybe that was her stocking up on pancake face powder at Hot Topic.Unfortunately, all of this posturing hasn’t improved her music. She’s still peddling the same coma-inducing New Age white noise your mom and Peter Jackson seem to love. Why, oh why, was this woman allowed on the “Lord of the Rings” soundtrack? The video is an apt visual complement to the song; it too is insufferably boring...