A coronavirus patient in her 70s—Lisette Braeken—who spent 160 days fighting the infection at a hospital in Belgium, including nine weeks in a coma, has been discharged from the hospital after doctors ...

BRUSSELS -- For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out. The car-crash victim had been ...

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Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by ...