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 ...

"Putting a feeding tube in my mother was the worst decision we ever made. I will not make that mistake with my father." The speaker's father had a Living Will stating that he did not want a feeding ...

Israeli medical startup Envizion Medical has raised $18 million to market a device that helps clinicians insert feeding tubes into patients more accurately. Feeding tubes can sometimes end up going ...

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 ...