The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has updated its Practice Alert for feeding tube insertion and created a new Practice Alert covering aspiration prevention practices for tube-fed ...

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 ...

A morbidly obese woman, who lost 165lbs in order to qualify for gastric bypass surgery, nearly derailed the impact of the life-saving procedure when she allowed emergency room doctors to insert a ...