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Waking those in a Permanent Vegetative State Louis Viljoen awoke from a three year coma after he was administered a sleeping pill. The question is whether or not the drug will work on others: Its effect on Louis has been remarkable, says his mother. Photos of the now 36-year-old man adorn the wall above his bed, marking each of the 10 birthdays he has spent here at the Ikhaya Tini Vorster rehabilitation centre in Dunnottar, near Springs. Previously: End the Madness: PVS is reversible or misdiagnosedIn the coming months, British company ReGen will begin clinical trials with Zolpidem on 30 coma patients in South Africa, in the hope that the drug will also bring them back to life.
Note that just like Terri Schiavo and Haleigh Poutre, doctors had diagnosed Louis as being in a permanent vegetative state (PVS). They told his mother he would never recover.
Waking those in a Permanent Vegetative State
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PINELLAS COUNTY---Last month, The Florida Supreme Court voted to remove Pinellas-Pasco County Circuit Court Judge John Renke III of New Port Richey from the bench, the first time since 1970 that a judge has been removed solely for campaign violations.
But Renke wants the state's highest court to reconsider while he continues to draw his annual salary of $139,497.
Florida Judge Wants Rehearing On Removal Decision
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