What Harm Does Testing Do?

She had a connection with her daughter few understood but for those who viewed Mary Schindler interacting with Terri Schiavo the obvious was an "emotional dagger to the heart." Pamela Hennessy writes a griping article about one mother's love for her daughter and the belittling she underwent by so-called right-to-die activists who were accepted by the court as unbiased medical experts.

Mrs. Schindler asked, "What harm could it do to just allow new tests?" The courts and Terri's husband said, "No!"

Now, BBC is reporting of an extraordinary development in assessing the clinical diagnosis of persistent vegetative state.

According to a report, published September 7, 2006, a 23 year-old woman, previously diagnosed PVS, produced remarkable fMRI results when asked to imagine a game of tennis and walking around her home. The measured responses were found to be consistent with the responses of volunteers with no brain injuries or neurological insults.