There was an enormous outcry against the forced placement of temporary feeding tubes in the noses of prisoners on hunger strikes in Guantánamo. Dramatic and inaccurate representations of the tubes as ...

If you stop to think about it, it’s pretty amazing how we get energy into our bodies. For most of us, we ingest calories orally by eating (hopefully nutritious and delicious) food and drink. These ...

Considering lung collapse (pneumothorax) affects 2-5% of 35 million feeding tube placements every year worldwide, the safe placement of a nasogastric feeding tube requires special medical care.

A feeding tube is a device that’s inserted into your stomach through your abdomen. It’s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Feeding tube insertion is also called percutaneous ...

Pope John Paul II is receiving added nutrition through a tube in his nose, the Vatican announced Wednesday, acknowledging for the first time that the pontiff’s recovery from throat surgery has been ...