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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The tagline on the website for Whole Story Meals is “feed me real,” which refers to the nutrient-dense formulation made from raw foods for tube-fed people. Autumn Cullen, founder of Whole Story Meals, ...
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 ...