A nasogastric tube is thin, soft, and flexible. The tube feeds directly into your baby’s stomach and food is processed through normal digestion. It shouldn't make your baby uncomfortable. The tubes ...

The Bombacinos and their son, AJ, have learned a lot the past eight years. "We were thrown into this world of special needs feeding that we never really expected," mother Julie Bombacino says. When AJ ...

The case of a severely brain-damaged woman remained locked in a legal stalemate Tuesday after an appeals court cleared the way for her husband to remove her feeding tube only to see a judge promptly ...

Brielle Trice has had a feeding tube since she was an infant. — -- When Brielle Trice sits down at the dinner table she gets her own plate and food along with her parents and siblings, but the ...

When someone is very ill or has had surgery that interrupts ordinary ways of eating and drinking, tube feeding is a life-saving necessity, but it’s cumbersome and uncomfortable to use. Luminoah aims ...

Indiana authorities have charged a 32-year-old mother with fraud and child neglect after investigators alleged she forced her ...

A Milwaukee woman learned a feeding tube was left in her body for more than 30 years. The woman said the tube was inserted while she was on life support in 1989, but it was never removed. Now, the ...

With CoapTech, Steven Tropello and Howard Carolan are working on new technology for replacing patients’ feeding tubes. The approach, called Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy, or PUG, utilizes a ...

After last week's article about brides who will go to extreme—yet non-surgical— lengths to look perfect in their wedding gowns (hello, feeding tube diet!), the NY Times offers a look at some of the ...