For patients with advanced dementia, eating, and in particular swallowing, is difficult. Certain types of doctors are more likely than others to insert gastric feeding tubes into patients with ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The robot-guided smART+ Platform vs. manual care for enteral feeding demonstrated higher feeding efficacy.

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, NY - The USNS Comfort, a Norfolk-based Navy hospital ship, is busy in New York, treating patients in what has become one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients being treated ...