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 ...
Screen shot of the report on the Pennsylvania Department of Heath site where nursing home inspection reports can be read. A Golden Living nursing home in East Pennsboro Township has fixed a list of ...
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 ...
A small plastic tube is all that stands between survival and starvation. The benefits of a feeding tube — helping elders who have forgotten how to eat — seem so obvious that it is used on one-third of ...
As soon as Traci Nagy's 5-year-old son, Lucas, gets home from kindergarten, she slips a small camouflage-colored backpack over his small shoulders before he goes outside to play or tumbles on the ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Malnutrition — suspected to occur in 40% to 80% of patients with cancer — can negatively affect response to ...
Rachel can’t taste any of the foods she makes, but cooking gives her a connection to her family and friends. This essay is part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, featuring stories by and about girls ...
Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. – A woman who built an online following blogging about her sickly young son could soon face charges after authorities determined that his death last January was caused by a lethal ...
WICHITA FALLS, Texas - A Texas mom was arrested last week on allegations that she faked her 4-year-old son’s medical problems, a scheme that involved more than 200 unnecessary doctor visits and more ...