ON a blazing afternoon, the Silver Point Beach Club was as indolent as molasses, with some sun worshipers stretched out coma-like on lounge chairs and others, slightly more upright in lawn chairs, dipping drowsily into the latest romance novel.
Lauda was back racing six weeks after he came out of coma.
It turns out meat comas are real: John was in a nearly literal meat stupor after overdoing it at Smitty's.
When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
"I spent a lot of time in hospitals, in neurological wards, studying how people come out of comas," she said.
The best treatment now is eflornithine, sometimes called the resurrection drug because it can pull the dying out of comas.
The safer anesthetics that might emerge from the research could be useful in sleep medicine, and ways of reviving cognitive function in anesthetized patients might give rise to strategies for helping bring people out of comas.
Dr. E. Roy John, a professor at New York University's School of Medicine and director of the Brain Research Laboratories there, who was scheduled to deliver two papers, said he had been particularly interested in sessions on bringing people out of comas through more active treatment.
He'd even seen such drugs bring people out of comas and other kinds of impaired consciousness, although not after nearly 10 years like Herbert.
A member of an online fan club for the musical Rent divulged numerous illnesses that caused her to slip in and out of comas, prompting some cast members to send sympathy cards.
Yet it took the discovery of David's mail-order DNA test for Kylie to piece it together (with a bit of help from fresh-out-the-coma Nick).
