The aim of this study was to perform a retrospective analysis characterizing patients receiving tube feeding following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement between 2004 and 2012 at ...

Phase II study of dichloroacetate (DCA) in combination with chemoradiation (CRT) for unresected, locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (LA-SCCHN). Retrospective analysis of ...

Background: Since it was described in 1980, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has been a widely used method for insertion of a gastrostomy tube in patients who are unable to swallow or ...

In November 2001, a 29-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of dysphagia due to an apallic state caused by cerebral anoxia. Nutritional support was maintained by nasogastric tube ...

A phase II open-label, multicenter, study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of rivoceranib in subjects with recurrent or metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Tiglutik (riluzole; ITF Pharma) oral suspension to include administration via percutaneous ...

Sylvia Graham, Gloria Sim, Ruby Laughren, Joyce Chicoine, Edith Stephenson, Gwen Leche, Margaret McIntyre, David Murray, Fred Y. Aoki and Lindsay E. Nicolle Objective: To compare patient outcomes when ...

Norman Swan: You're with the Health Report here on ABC Radio National still to come - making doctors' and hospitals' performance publicly available. But before that let's go to an issue linked to the ...

Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

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A 25-year-old woman with a history of cerebral palsy, developmental disability and corpus callosotomy for tonic-clonic seizures was brought to hospital with a two-day history of progressively ...