Someone stole into the rooms of six elderly, comatose patients in a Fairmount nursing home yesterday and cut their feeding tubes, said Philadelphia police Someone stole into the rooms of six elderly, ...

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(HealthDay News) — The rate of feeding tube insertions in hospitalized patients with severe dementia varies by type of attending physician, according to a study published in the April issue of Health ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether or not a person with advanced dementia winds up with a feeding tube inserted down their throat may have more to do with economic concerns than his or her wishes, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “This study helps to strengthen the evidence for careful hand-feeding, particularly for places where nasogastric ...

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 ...

Tuesday was day five without a feeding tube for Terri Schiavo. Dr. Kyle Krohn said, "Usually, someone who's not receiving any food or water will probably not live more than one or two weeks." That's ...

Detecting sarcopenia at baseline alongside markers of malnutrition could guide decision-making regarding the need for feeding tube placement in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma ...

A team of clinician researchers from Lawson Health Research Institute have partnered with medical device company CoapTech LLC to study a new method of feeding tube insertion. The study is assessing ...

LANSING, Mich. — A new procedure at Sparrow Hospital is helping patients get the nutrition they need. Magnets are being used to track the feeding tube to the right spot in the stomach, according to ...

With CoapTech, Steven Tropello and Howard Carolan are working on new technology for replacing patients’ feeding tubes. The approach, called Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy, or PUG, utilizes a ...

A 61-year-old Hong Kong patient is in a critical condition after a feeding tube was mistakenly inserted into his airway and remained undiscovered for more than a day. A nurse in an orthopaedic ward at ...