A federal appeals court rejected a request to reinsert Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube today. The tube has now been removed by court order on three occasions: on April 24, 2001; on Oct. 15, 2003; and ...

Enteral feeding, also called tube feeding, is a method of feeding that provides nutrition and calories when a person can’t chew or swallow. This generally involves providing nutrition through a tube ...

Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

Necessity is often the mother of invention. And this is exactly how Robin Gentry McGee, founder and CEO of Nutritional Medicinals, located in Centerville, ended up creating the first whole-food and ...

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 ...

Deborah Lowe filed a lawsuit after dealing with more than three decades of pain, which she claims is the result of a feeding tube left inside her body WCP Communications A Wisconsin woman is taking ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Fifteen years to the day after Terri Schiavo suffered severe brain damage, leaving her in a persistent vegetative state, a judge Friday ordered that the feeding tube keeping her ...

Two weeks ago, Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants went on a hunger strike while waiting for their trial for the killing of Shiite Muslims in 1982 to reconvene. Hussein has since been ...