PHOENIX (KPNX) — The woman who gave birth at Hacienda Healthcare in Phoenix is not in a vegetative state or comatose, according to her family’s lawyer. John Micheaels, the attorney representing the ...

Christa Lilly, the Colorado woman diagnosed with persistent vegetative state who woke up and began talking, has relapsed into an unresponsive state. Her mother promises to care for her no matter what.

Many of the patients were labeled with the same grim diagnosis: "vegetative state." Their head injuries, teams of specialists had concluded, condemned them to a netherworld -- alive yet utterly devoid ...