A judge ruled on Friday that the husband of a brain-damaged woman could remove her feeding tube next month, moving to bring an end to the long-fought case.

A brain-damaged woman who cannot recognize fear on other people's faces or feel it herself is helping researchers learn important details about how the human brain is wired.

A judge denied a request by the state's social services agency to intervene in delaying the removal of the feeding tube keeping a brain-damaged woman alive.

A brain-damaged woman whose feedings were stopped at her family's request and then resumed while a Christian group appealed the decision has died, her family said today.

A circuit court judge ordered the removal of a feeding tube that has kept a brain-damaged woman alive for a decade.

In a somewhat similar case, Mr. Bush intervened in a dispute involving a brain-damaged woman whose husband won a judge's permission to disconnect her feeding tube.

Church officials had condemned the death in March of Ms. Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose husband won years of court battles to have her feeding tube removed.

A judge today rejected doctors' advice that a severely brain-damaged woman be taken off a respirator.

A judge ordered hospice workers to resume feeding a severely brain-damaged woman Saturday while a Christian group appealed his earlier ruling affirming her right to die.

Congressional leaders are playing a dangerous game with their intrusion into the hotly publicized fight in Florida over maintaining life support for a severely brain-damaged woman.