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Johnny Depp to help coma girl  -  25 Mar 2008
China Daily,...[Agencies] Kind-hearted Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has vowed to help a British girl who is fighting for her life after spending five months in a coma.

Vic man in coma with head injuries after attack  -  25 Mar 2008
ABC Online,A 46-year-old man remains in an induced coma after a brutal attack in Victoria's Box Hill on the weekend. The Box Hill South man was with a group of friends

Mystery attacker beats sleeping Ont. man into coma  -  25 Mar 2008
National Post,CALGARY -- An Ontario man who stepped off a bus seeking a new life in Calgary is comatose in hospital after attackers savagely beat him while he slept near

Tour Bus Accident Leaves Tejano Singer Emilio In Coma  -  25 Mar 2008
KRIS-TV,They say he remains in a medically-induced coma and may not survive a severe brain injury. The singer's tour bus crashed Sunday on a Houston-area freeway.

I spent year in a coma after mountain fall  -  25 Mar 2008
Daily Post,A CLIMBER who spent more than a year in a coma after falling over 100ft from Cader Idris, wants to thank the mountain warden who saved his life.

Crash victim recovering: Families rally around pregnant woman now ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Since then, Smith-Lester has come out of her coma, responded to conversations with facial expressions and blinking her eyes, but she has not talked because

Man held for allegedly burning girlfriend  -  25 Mar 2008
Chicago Sun-Times,The woman came out of a coma last week and told police her boyfriend, Traylor, lit her on fire. When the woman regained consciousness, she told police,

NB woman gets Easter miracle in Calgary as son comes out of coma  -  25 Mar 2008
Winnipeg Sun,A labourer in Alberta for three years, Jimmy Arsenault had been in a coma since March 6. That day, he was stabbed and nearly beaten to death in an attack

Late At Tate: Abstraction To Distraction  -  25 Mar 2008
HULIQ,Members of CoMA North West will present Abstraction/Composition, music inspired by and related to works in Tate Liverpool’s current collection display – DLA

Giving Thanks to Emergency Workers  -  25 Mar 2008
KAKE,Megan Steele beat the odds after a car crash that left her in a coma for weeks. Monday, for the first time she met the emergency workers who helped save her

Witnesses sought to serious assault  -  25 Mar 2008
Victoria Police,Police are seeking witnesses to an assault on Sunday morning which has left a man in an induced coma. Around 12.50am 23 March it is believed three men got

Did ancient remedy kill student?  -  25 Mar 2008
Shields Gazette,She was admitted to the Freeman Hospital, where she fell into a coma and died after her liver and other internal organs failed. A verdict of misadventure

21-year-old pronounced dead feels pretty good  -  25 Mar 2008
ABC Online,When she was injured, she could no longer speak English and she had a long, extended period in coma but gradually the first language, Spanish,

Coma – Signs and Symptoms of Coma  -  Mar 24, 2008
Los Angeles Chronicle,A coma can be difficult to understand, especially because people sometimes jokingly use the words coma and comatose (say: ko-muh-tohss), which means in a

Family Hope Sleeping Pill Will Wake Coma Dad  -  Mar 23, 2008
Glasgow Sunday Mail,DEVOTED Donna McWilliam is pinning her hopes on a pill nicknamed the Lazarus drug to rouse her fiance from a five-year coma. Policeman John Alcock will be

Seeking relief; Woman spent week in ketamine-induced coma  -  Mar 22, 2008
Sudbury Star,The controversial treatment she had involved inducing a coma by flooding her body for five days with ketamine, a powerful human and veterinary anesthetic

Hollywood star to try and help Hampshire girl from coma  -  Mar 22, 2008
this is hampshire.net,Sophie Wilkinson has been in a coma for the past five months, since the car she was a passenger in - driven by an 18-year-old who had passed his test just

Poisoned mayor awakened from artificial coma  -  Mar 18, 2008
Wiener Zeitung,Doctors at Krems hospital in Lower Austria have announced that Hannes Hirtzberger has been awakened from the artificial coma in which he had spent more than

Crooked I: All Good Things Come To An End  -  Mar 24, 2008
BallerStatus.com,All through his coma, we had your Hip-Hop Weeklies playing in his ears because the doctor said it was cool if he listened to music while he was in a coma.

Developer's coma delays construction of Ocean City hotel  -  Mar 21, 2008
Press of Atlantic City,CITY - A luxury hotel has been on hold for the past year because the developer suffered a near-fatal bicycle accident and was in a coma for a week.

Attack leaves man in coma  -  Mar 15, 2008
Melbourne Herald Sun,He was mobbed by up to 10 men about 10.30pm on Friday and was in a critical condition in an induced coma at the Royal Melbourne Hospital last night.

Prayers for coma man  -  Mar 20, 2008
Jewish Chronicle,...hit by a drunk motorcyclist. His legs were crushed and he hit his head in the collision. He is now reported to be critically ill in a coma.

Coming together for Janet  -  Mar 24, 2008
Ithaca Journal,She was still alive, but her pelvis and wrist were broken, and she was in a coma from serious brain trauma. The paramedics wouldn't even let her father,

Ricin-exposed man out of coma  -  Mar 14, 2008
CNN...(CNN) -- A man believed to have been exposed to the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, is out of his coma and is being questioned by

13 years after accident that left her in coma, woman dies in fiery ...  -  Mar 13, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),When she was 12 years old, Anderson suffered head injuries in a car accident near Fargo, ND The avid horse rider spent about nine weeks in a deep coma and

Heroin coma victim's parents speak out  -  Mar 20, 2008
ITN,Nina Williams has been in a coma since the accidental overdose ten years ago. She sits lifeless, unable to speak or hear, and is fed through a tube in her

Halliwell performance wakes coma girl  -  Mar 13, 2008
Ireland Online,Pop star Geri Halliwell has stunned the family of a young British girl after helping her to recover from a coma by singing. The Spice Girl paid a surprise

Turkish Citizen Dies, 2 in Coma after Minibus Breaks in Half in ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
Sofia News Agency,The driver and the third passenger, 31, have been hospitalized in coma with serious skull-brain and abdominal traumas. The victims were found about 20

Local mom shares child's story  -  Mar 23, 2008
Prescott Daily Courier,After Madison's surgery, she was in a coma on a ventilator, and the right side of her brain had swelled. She came out of the coma on Nov.

Canadian woman in coma shows improvement  -  Mar 12, 2008
Canada.com,...injuries in a traffic accident in Africa says she is showing some signs of improvement as she lies in a coma in a hospital in London, England.

Vukomanović still critical, in coma  -  Mar 19, 2008
B92,Vukomanović, an off-duty Kosovo police, KPS, officer, is still in a coma and is breathing through a ventilator, Tanjug learned at the ICU of the Clinical

Fridley Man Beaten Outside of Bar Awakens from Coma  -  Mar 19, 2008
FOX 9 News,FRIDLEY – A man who was beaten in a racially-motivated fight outside a Fridley bar March 1 has now come out of a coma. 39-year-old Tony Brazelton is on a

Man Hospitalized in Ricin Case Comes Out of Coma, Talks to Police  -  Mar 14, 2008
Wall Street JournalAP LAS VEGAS -- A man who may have been exposed to toxic ricin in his motel room a month ago has regained consciousness and was speaking with investigators,

Ginger Spice moves girl in coma - report  -  Mar 11, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,The Spice Girl made a surprise visit to the hospital bed of 14-year-old Jessica Knight, who had been in a coma for six days after being stabbed 30 times as

A mother's agony: her boy in coma after bottle assault  -  Mar 11, 2008
The Age,THE mother of a young man who was left in a coma after being bashed with an alcopop bottle during Moomba celebrations has pleaded with witnesses to the

Attack victim still in coma  -  Mar 19, 2008
icLanarkshire - East Kilbride News,A YOUNG East Kilbride man who was brutally assaulted near his home last weekend remains in a coma fighting for his life. The 21-year-old was viciously

Man in coma after city brawl  -  Mar 11, 2008
ABC Online,An 18-year-old man is in an induced coma after he was involved in a brawl in Melbourne's CBD on Friday night. James Butcher suffered severe head injuries

£8000 plea to fly girl in coma home  -  Mar 19, 2008
Glasgow Evening Times,Corrine Barrons, 33, from Kilsyth, was left in a coma after smashing her head on the ski slopes of Meribel two weeks ago. She faces up to a year of rehab to

Bottle attack leaves teen in coma  -  Mar 10, 2008
Melbourne Herald Sun,Neurosurgeons have operated to remove a blood clot on the brain of 18-year-old James Butcher who is now on life support and in an induced coma at Royal

Original STEELHEART Drummer In A Coma - Mar. 19, 2008  -  Mar 19, 2008
Blabbermouth.net,He had a brain aneurysm and he is in a coma. The doctors say they don't know if he is going to make it. I ask all of you if you can send him some love and

Athlete overcame stroke, coma and complete paralysis to inspire others  -  Mar 18, 2008
Cleveland Daily Banner,Triumphing over three strokes, being in a coma for months and being completely paralyzed from his tear ducks to his toes, make McClanahan a maestro of

Scarlett might be murdered: Forensic report  -  Mar 22, 2008
Sify,..."Levels of ethyl alcohol detected in the instant case are not enough to cause coma and death." The report also mentions that the bruises and abrasions on

Theft victim in a coma  -  Mar 18, 2008
Daily Express,Kota Kinabalu: A 23-year-old local is in a coma after being knocked down by a car, whose passengers included the person who supposedly stole his mobile

Man survives snakebite, heart attack and coma  -  Mar 7, 2008
Sify,Melbourne: Snakebite, heart attack and coma! all at the same time – can surely signal the end of a person. But Nick Taft, from Australia, was strong enough

Wrexham airman's recovery after coma  -  Mar 18, 2008
Evening Leader,A WREXHAM father has today spoken for the first time of his battle to help his beloved son recover from a terrible mystery incident that left him in a coma

DALVINDER TELLS OF COMA STRUGGLE  -  Mar 18, 2008
Derby Evening Telegraph,A savage attack outside Bespoke bar left him in a coma with a major head injury - the front part of his brain had swelled up and pressure in the side of the

Once in Coma, Girl May Testify  -  Mar 3, 2008
ABC News...(AP Photo/Family Handout) By SCOTT MICHELS More than two years after Haleigh Poutre was so brutally beaten she was left in a coma from which she was never

Mum dies after 38 years caring for coma-stricken daughter  -  Mar 7, 2008
Melbourne Herald Sun,Kaye O'Bara, who pledged to never leave her then-teenage daughter's side as the girl slipped into a diabetic coma 38 years ago, died at her Miami Gardens

Teenage party leaves dog in coma  -  Mar 8, 2008
Melbourne Herald Sun,By staff writers A BRITISH teenager has made Corey Worthington look like an amateur after her internet advertised party got so out of hand her dog was

DI STEFANO DIES AFTER A 3 YEAR COMA FOR AGGRESSION  -  Mar 3, 2008
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia,Due to his injuries on 7 December he entered a coma and on 23 December 2004, after a long trip to Italy, he was admitted to a Milan hospital where he

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