While a healthy, balanced diet improves quality of life, people suffering from common symptoms of advanced dementia often have a weak swallow or lose the ability to swallow safely, especially toward ...

Enteral nutrition is a cornerstone of supportive care in critically ill patients, and the methods for feeding tube placement have evolved markedly over recent decades. Early approaches relied on blind ...

A variety of access routes into the gastrointestinal tract and a range of feeding tube types are used for enteral feeding. This article is a practical guide and comes with a self-assessment enabling ...

When this transfer happens, the patients can become stressed, leading hospital staff to prescribe medications and insert feeding tubes, the report suggests. It is more likely that larger, for-profit ...

As the family of Terri Schiavo runs out of options in their quest to have her feeding tube reinserted, another family heads to Bucks County Court today to battle over whether a 72-year-old man should ...

Kojiro Tokutake wanted to be a doctor since he was a teenager. His grandmother bought him his first stethoscope when he was in medical school. A decade later, he helped her die. Tokutake, 33, is a ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II may have to return to the hospital to have a feeding tube inserted because he is having difficulty swallowing an Italian news agency reported yesterday. The APcom ...