LANSING, Mich. — A new procedure at Sparrow Hospital is helping patients get the nutrition they need. Magnets are being used to track the feeding tube to the right spot in the stomach, according to ...

Universal guidelines and improvements in technology are needed to reduce injuries and deaths from improper placement of nasogastric feeding tubes in pediatric patients, according to a comprehensive ...

TYLER, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NanoVibronix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAOV) (“NanoVibronix” or the “Company”), a medical technology company specializing in therapeutic devices, announced today, through its ...

Baltimore-based medical device startup CoapTech reached a key milestone in April: It can now market its product that allows the placement of a feeding tube without the need for an operating room.

A team of clinician researchers from Lawson Health Research Institute have partnered with medical device company CoapTech LLC to study a new method of feeding tube insertion. The study is assessing ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

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 ...

A Wisconsin lawsuit accuses a hospital of leaving a feeding tube in a woman’s body after an emergency surgery in 1989. Photo by Martha Dominguez via Unsplash For years after an emergency C-section and ...

A Washington state mom pleaded not guilty Thursday to allegations that she faked her adopted daughter’s “rare” illness and subjected the healthy child to a series of unnecessary medical procedures — ...