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 ...

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, ...

Studies have failed to show the benefits of using feeding tubes in patients with dementia, and expert opinions have increasingly been against the practice. Following that trend, a study in JAMA showed ...

The UK's first burns bus has already reduced health inequalities in its first six months by travelling to more than 700 ...

A collaboration study led by researchers from the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has found ...

Evangelina Yzaguirre in her home in Alton on March 1. Yzaguirre a cancer patient at DHR Health, a local hospital system, receives food aid from the hospital pantry program. (Ben Lowy For The Texas ...

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 ...

Misconceptions regarding medicine and health are common and often become deeply entrenched in culture, highlighting the need for fact-based healthcare education to refute them. In honor of April ...

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy did not increase the risk for feeding tube dependence for patients with oropharyngeal ...

According to Feeding Alabama, about one in five children in the state experiences hunger. In honor of September being Hunger ...