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Sleeping Pill May Reverse Comatose Patients, Study Says
by Dawn Rizzoni
01 Jun, 2006
****(CNSNews.com) - Scientific researchers have revealed in the medical journal NeuroRehabilitation that a commonly-used sleeping pill, zolpidem (brand name Ambien), can be used to temporarily awaken patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), coma, or other brain-injured state.
The discovery has attracted the interest of The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation for Health Care Ethics. The Foundation was named in memory of the brain-damaged Florida woman who died in March 2005 after her husband Michael Schiavo won a long legal battle to cut her off from all nutrition.
In light of the medical breakthrough, The Schindler-Schiavo Foundation has called for a moratorium of ...
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http://www.CNSNEWS.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200606/SPE20060601a.html
by Dawn Rizzoni
01 Jun, 2006
****(CNSNews.com) - Scientific researchers have revealed in the medical journal NeuroRehabilitation that a commonly-used sleeping pill, zolpidem (brand name Ambien), can be used to temporarily awaken patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), coma, or other brain-injured state.
The discovery has attracted the interest of The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation for Health Care Ethics. The Foundation was named in memory of the brain-damaged Florida woman who died in March 2005 after her husband Michael Schiavo won a long legal battle to cut her off from all nutrition.
In light of the medical breakthrough, The Schindler-Schiavo Foundation has called for a moratorium of ...
ARTICLE CONTINUES....
http://www.CNSNEWS.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200606/SPE20060601a.html