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Stomach Tubes to Feed Elderly Often Unnecessary, May Be Harmful

Feeding tubes surgically implanted into the stomach are coming under growing criticism in medical care for the elderly, even as their use among the frail, terminally ill and often demented patients has...

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Best Feed Tube Decisions Require Tough Choices

A blunt description of stomach tube surgery might go something like this: A doctor is going to poke a hole in your elderly aunt’s stomach and stick a feeding tube in it, and liquid formula will be...

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