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Venezuela's cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez is recovering in Cuba and is not in a coma as some have rumored a month after surgery, his brother, Adan Chavez, said after a visit to Havana.

The Scottish government Monday took aim at critics of its decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, a day after CNN found him comatose and near death.

Hosni Mubarak's lawyer said the ousted Egyptian president has suffered a stroke and is in a coma. However, a doctor at the hospital where Mubarak has been held under arrest denied the report.

Zsa Zsa Gabor suffered another health setback Wednesday morning, the latest in a series of medical stuggles for the 94-year-old actress, her husband said.

Former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs, who spent the past four years in a coma after losing oxygen during a 2007 operation, has died without ever regaining consciousness. He was 54....

The video appeared on a Russian news Web site on Monday, illustrating the severity of an attack that drew attention from domestic and foreign groups defending journalists’ rights.

Gary Coleman's living will called for the actor to be kept alive unless he was in an irreversible coma for at least 15 days, according to a court document.

After 24 hours in a coma, a Croatian girl woke up speaking only German, according to reports. Doctors say it may be due to different parts of her brain being affected.

French rock legend Johnny Hallyday had a botched operation in France and is now in a medically induced coma in a Los Angeles hospital as he recovers from surgery to fix the damage, his producer said.

Conscious but unable to communicate for 23 years after a car accident that was thought to have put him into a deep coma, a quadriplegic Belgian man has described how medical science finally put an end to his agonizing years of silence ...