The pope’s doctors are considering an operation to insert a tube into his stomach so he can be fed without having to swallow. If the procedure is performed, John Paul II would receive nutrition the ...

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 ...

Terri Schiavo might still be alive had she been in a hospice in New York State rather than Florida. A Queens Supreme Court justice, citing state and Orthodox Jewish law, ruled last week that a feeding ...

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, ...

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 ...

A new study has found that prolonged use of gastrostomy tubes in feeding pediatric patients with intestinal failure can lead to persistent gastrocutaneous fistulae, or the failure of the opening to ...