Word: comas
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...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
...dressing room afterward, Moore told reporters: "I'd like to fight Ramos again." Then he seemed to fall asleep. He arrived at the hospital in a deep coma. Doctors diagnosed "severe contusions to the brain stem," listed his chances of survival "extremely poor...
...Neurologists outside Russia would not go as far as that. What the Landau case did, they conceded, was to undermine such arguments as the one propounded in last week's London medical journal Lancet, that doctors should not seek to prolong the lives of braindamaged patients in "irrevocable comas." By previously accepted standards, Landau had been in such a coma for months...
...This sort of attack leaves no lasting ill effects. But in a few victims, and especially those over 60, a high fever develops rapidly, the headache is so severe that aspirin and even morphine compounds give no relief; there are chills, nausea and vomiting. Some patients go into a coma or convulsions; if they survive such a severe attack, they may have suffered permanent brain damage. No medicine does any good against the virus...
...simple concussion, which usually leaves no permanent damage. But a hard blow can also bruise the brain, breaking some of its blood vessels and destroying nerve cells. This kind of damage can kill. The death in Manhattan last week of Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, after nine days in a coma, from brain injuries suffered in his world championship bout with Emile Griffith, underscored the charge that "in boxing, the aim is to maim...