If you stop to think about it, it's pretty amazing how we get energy into our bodies. For most of us, we ingest calories orally by eating (hopefully nutritious and delicious) food and drink. These ...

Immigrants around the country have staged hunger strikes over the past month to protest conditions inside detention facilities, prompting officials to force-feed six of them through plastic nasal ...

There was an enormous outcry against the forced placement of temporary feeding tubes in the noses of prisoners on hunger strikes in Guantánamo. Dramatic and inaccurate representations of the tubes as ...

ROME Pope John Paul II is receiving liquid feedings through a tube that was inserted through his nose and winds down into his stomach, Vatican officials announced Wednesday, raising new alarms about ...

Just when we thought we’d heard it all, some brides have turned to an extreme weight loss trend that sets a new creepiness record: nasal feeding tubes. For about $1,500 a pop — a real bargain for a ...

ICE spokesperson Leticia Zamarripa told the AP that in mid-January, two weeks after detainees started the hunger strike, a federal judge authorized force-feeding of at least six of the detainees at ...

SELBYVILLE, Del., Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- According to latest report "Enteral Feeding Tubes Market Product (Nasoenteric/Nasal Feeding Tube, Abdominal/Ostotomy Feeding Tube), Disease Condition ...

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro had a feeding tube removed from his nose on Friday, doctors said, five days after another operation on his stomach, where he was stabbed during a campaign rally last ...

Patients who are too ill to eat have been fed by temporary tubes for many years. But, large numbers of nursing homes are now rejecting these tubes in favor of tubes that are implanted into the stomach ...

Immigrants have gone on hunger strikes over the past month to protest conditions inside detention facilities, prompting officials to force-feed six of them through plastic nasal tubes at a Texas ...