Doctors inserted a feeding tube in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stomach on Wednesday, according to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, where he is being treated for a massive stroke. Sharon, 77, ...
A Wisconsin woman is taking legal action after learning a feeding tube was allegedly left inside her body during surgery nearly 35 years ago. In 1989, Deborah Lowe was pregnant with twins when she ...
They call themselves “tubies” — people with certain medical conditions who accept long-term feeding tubes as the best or only way to nourish themselves. With the feeding tube in place, many resume ...
Feeding tubes are designed to nourish patients, not deprive them of calories and hasten weight loss. News reports of a feeding tube diet popped up, followed by a slew of TV reports on the new “trend.” ...
A dad is winning the Internet for the special way he is supporting his young son who was born with a congenital heart defect. Robert Selby, 33 from Virginia shared a topless image of himself alongside ...
Syke was burned by her own stomach acid (Picture: NCJ Media Ltd) A three-year-old girl was burned by her own stomach acid every time she ate because her feeding tube started leaking. Skye Davis, who ...
If you have cancer of the food pipe or cancer of the stomach, and have major surgery to treat this, you are likely to be fed afterwards through a tube into your small bowel. This is so your body can ...
VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II on Wednesday (March 30) had a plastic feeding tube inserted into his nose, down the back of his throat and through his esophagus to carry nourishment directly to his ...
A teenager has not eaten a meal for almost five years because she has a rare condition which paralyses her stomach. Ayllah-Beau Foley, 19, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, has been in agony for years ...
A little girl whose feeding tube started leaking was burned by her own STOMACH ACID, her mum says. Skye Davis was unable to return home with her devastated mum Kelley after losing more than 3lbs in ...