A nasogastric tube is thin, soft, and flexible. The tube feeds directly into your baby’s stomach and food is processed through normal digestion. It shouldn't make your baby uncomfortable. The tubes ...

A 12-year-old British girl still requires a feeding tube two years after contracting COVID-19 — as the once energetic child battles to recover from the long-term ravages of the illness. Tillie Adams, ...

A Milwaukee woman learned a feeding tube was left in her body for more than 30 years. The woman said the tube was inserted while she was on life support in 1989, but it was never removed. Now, the ...

Brigid’s Path, Ohio’s first newborn recovery center, is now able to provide nasogastric tube feeding for infants exposed to addictive substances. Nurses at the Kettering nonprofit say this new ...

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 ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla., March 18 -- Deep inside a shingled hospice, cloistered in a guarded room far from a gathering of protesters, Terri Schiavo on Friday afternoon stopped receiving the ...

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When someone is very ill or has had surgery that interrupts ordinary ways of eating and drinking, tube feeding is a life-saving necessity, but it’s cumbersome and uncomfortable to use. Luminoah aims ...

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 new study measured use of feeding tubes in Canadian nursing home residents, finding similar trends to those in the United States. Many people with advanced dementia have a hard time eating, but ...