A Texas woman has been charged with falsifying her toddler’s medical history to manipulate doctors into performing ...

The investigators note that the lower rate of feeding-tube placement with IMPT at the end of treatment, combined with a ...

BACKGROUND: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is the main accepted method for long-term tube feeding. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the risk factors associated with early mortality after PEG.

We present a case that highlights the issues surrounding the delivery of a safe general anaesthetic to a patient with Huntington’s disease (HD) and bulbar dysfunction. In the case of a 46-year-old ...

Correspondence to: Dr P B Sullivan Senior Lecturer and Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, University of Oxford, Level 4, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; peter.sullivan ...

After my husband Todd’s ALS diagnosis in 2010, we regularly monitored the forced vital capacity (FVC) of his lungs. This was because the neurologist at our ALS clinic had told us that if Todd wanted ...

– Whether ultrasound offers a promising alternative to X-rays for confirming proper gastric tube placement is uncertain. – More research is needed to determine the accuracy of ultrasound to identify ...