Kendra Kline’s five-year-old son, John Henry, has relied on a feeding tube his entire life. “He has never eaten food by mouth,” she says. Born at just 26 weeks, he needed home oxygen supplies in ...

But my passion for eating came to a screeching halt this summer when I had a medical crisis that required a tracheostomy and a G-J (gastric and jejunostomy) tube rendering me unable to speak or eat.

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 ...

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 ...

A 12-year-old British girl still requires a feeding tube two years after contracting COVID-19 — as the once energetic child battles to recover from the long-term ravages of the illness. Tillie Adams, ...

After seven years of bad luck for Avanos Medical’s enteral feeding tube placement system, the FDA has handed down its most serious designation for a recall of the device. The Cortrak*2 Enteral Access ...