A minimally conscious state, unlike a vegetative state, is characterized by some evidence of awareness of self and/or the environment, and patients tend to improve. Diagnosis is clinical. Treatment is mainly supportive. Prognosis for patients with persistent deficits is typically bleak.
agenda (plural agendas) 1  A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. 2  A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
Ari Rabin-Havt is host of The Agenda, a national morning radio program on SiriusXM Progress 127. He is also formally Executive Vice President of Media Matters for America and was on the faculty of the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.