Nasogastric Tube (NG): An NG tube passes through the nose, down the throat and esophagus and ends in the stomach. Sometimes the doctor will decide that it’s safer to give nutrition past the stomach, ...

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 ...

A new study led by Brown University researchers reports that percutaneous endoscopic gastric (PEG) feeding tubes, long assumed to help bedridden dementia patients stave off or overcome pressure ulcers ...