Someone stole into the rooms of six elderly, comatose patients in a Fairmount nursing home yesterday and cut their feeding tubes, said Philadelphia police Someone stole into the rooms of six elderly, ...

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(HealthDay News) — The rate of feeding tube insertions in hospitalized patients with severe dementia varies by type of attending physician, according to a study published in the April issue of Health ...

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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 ...

Is oral feeding of a patient who is ventilator-dependent and has a chronic indwelling tracheostomy tube acceptable? Isn’t there a risk of aspiration if patients with tracheostomies who do not have ...

But Joseph Piccione, senior vice president of mission and ethics at OSF Health Care in Peoria, Ill., said that if a patient knows she is dying of, say, incurable metastasized ovarian cancer but is ...

Detecting sarcopenia at baseline alongside markers of malnutrition could guide decision-making regarding the need for feeding tube placement in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma ...

MANY WHO SUPPORT Terri Schiavo’s threatened dehydration assert that removing a feeding tube from a profoundly cognitively disabled person results in a painless and gentle ending. But is this really ...

A team of clinician researchers from Lawson Health Research Institute have partnered with medical device company CoapTech LLC to study a new method of feeding tube insertion. The study is assessing ...

The UK Supreme Court [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF] Monday that in cases where a patient is in a permanent vegetative state [NHS backgrounder], the patient may be taken off life support, ...