A retrospective cohort study links smoking, baseline function and radiation dose to recovery from feeding tubes and finds ...

The Relationship Between PEG Tubes and Skin ProblemsWhile a PEG tube is an effective method for long-term nutritional ...

A woman admitted to hospital with abdominal pain died five days after doctors fitted a feeding tube into her stomach, an ...

Introduction“Since they are not eating by mouth, they will not get aspiration pneumonia”—this is a common assumption in ...

In a reported first, Chinese clinicians established long-term feeding access directly into the duodenum of a 12-year-old boy ...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a procedure that places a flexible feeding tube through the abdominal wall into the stomach using an endoscope, a thin camera passed through the mouth. It ...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become the standard method for providing enteral nutrition, with peristomal infection being one of its most common complications. The aim of the present ...

Researchers now believe that removing a woman's fallopian tubes could lower the risk of ovarian cancer by as much as 78%, according to a recent study. Dr. Cesar Castro, director of the Medical ...