Why have we not heard more about this, especially in light of the Schiavo debacle?

"A team in Cambridge have discovered that a patient in a vegetative state can communicate through her thoughts."

"Researchers at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and in Academic Neurosurgery in Cambridge, in collaboration with colleagues in Liege, have for the first time discovered a way to show preserved conscious awareness in a patient who has been diagnosed as vegetative. The research is published today in Science. "

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=51473
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/NewsViewsAndEvents/News/MRC002623