Fewer U.S. nursing home patients with dementia are getting feeding tubes as mounting evidence suggests it may not help them live longer or make them more comfortable, new research suggests.

Fully a third of patients who have certain feeding tubes placed for Parkinson’s disease-related dysphagia are discharged to an eldercare facility, a new outcomes study has found. Investigators ...

Enteral nutrition is a cornerstone of supportive care in critically ill patients, and the methods for feeding tube placement have evolved markedly over recent decades. Early approaches relied on blind ...

A variety of access routes into the gastrointestinal tract and a range of feeding tube types are used for enteral feeding. This article is a practical guide and comes with a self-assessment enabling ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, January 7 /PRNewswire/ — Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com), a world leader inhealthcare and medical publishing and online solutions ...

Last year, Pennsylvania's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against 25 Golden Living nursing homes over allegations that the homes were so understaffed that residents were living in feces-smeared rooms ...

Feeding tubes deliver nutrition, hydration, and medication directly to a person’s stomach or intestines. A healthcare professional will insert it through the nose, mouth, or abdomen. A person may not ...