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Sleeping Pills May Wake Up PVS Patients

by caktus May 25, 2006 3:51PM PDT

Now isn't this a switch from being awakened to take a sleeping pill?

Sleeping Pills May Wake Up PVS Patients, Terri Schiavo Family Optimistic

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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 24, 2006

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- British and South African researchers have discovered that they can temporarily wake up patients who are comatose or in a supposedly permanent vegetative state by, ironically, giving them a common sleeping pill. The drug allowed comatose patients to interact and talk with their family for hours before the effects wear off.
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