A feeding tube, also known as a gavage tube, is used to give nutrition to infants who cannot eat on their own. The feeding tube is normally used in a hospital, but it can be used at home to feed ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

Considering lung collapse (pneumothorax) affects 2-5% of 35 million feeding tube placements every year worldwide, the safe placement of a nasogastric feeding tube requires special medical care.

A Wisconsin woman is taking legal action after learning a feeding tube was allegedly left inside her body during surgery nearly 35 years ago. In 1989, Deborah Lowe was pregnant with twins when she ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Three weeks have passed since 7-year-old Felicity "Lissy" Frugé, of Fort Worth, had surgery for a feeding tube placement. Her father, David Frugé said the surgery potentially saved ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Despite the common clinical practice of delaying feedings after [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)] ...

Your doctor may recommend a feeding tube if you have throat cancer and can‘t consume enough nutrients. The length of time may vary depending on the exact reasons for the feeding tube. Every year, over ...

TOKYO – For the first time, Japan is trying to hold down the number of bedbound elderly people kept alive, sometimes for years, by feeding tubes. About a quarter-million Japanese elderly live on ...

Six months after a routine tonsillectomy led to life-threatening complications, Liam Klaver faces new challenges as he returns to 7th grade. Liam's return to school in Muskego looks very different ...

Seventies TV sweetheart Susan Richardson was rushed to the hospital from the Pennsylvania trailer park she calls home with a faulty feeding tube — and barely escaped death, RadarOnline.com can ...