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  • Some editors feared that readers might connect one feeding-tube story to the other and thus find the Tribune insensitive.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • Some editors feared that readers might connect one feeding-tube story to the other and thus find the Tribune insensitive.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • The $1m offer expires on Monday, 14 March, four days before Mrs Schiavo's feeding-tube is due to be removed.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • A US tycoon has offered $1m £520,000 to the husband of a badly brain-damaged woman to stop him from removing her feeding-tube next week.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • When feeding-tube was placed in his nose, preparatory to feeding, he jumped up and said, "I'll drink it," and drank the entire contents of the pitcher.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • The street was like a feeding-tube through which nourishment was continually being drawn into the city.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • The street was like a feeding-tube through which nourishment was continually being drawn into the city.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • Md. feeding-tube case pits wife against mother A judge in Maryland must decide if a man who suffered severe brain damage after a heart attack should continue getting sustenance through a feeding tube at his mother's and brother's behest, contrary to his wife's instructions.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The odds of a feeding-tube insertion in a hospitalized patient with advanced dementia were about 50% greater when the hospital was larger than 310 beds than in facilities with 100 beds or less, and it was 33% more common in for-profit versus government-owned facilities, reported Joan M. Teno, M., of Brown University in Providence, R.I., and colleagues.

    MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010

  • Mucositis can also cause adverse affects on a variety of other health and economic outcomes, such as a risk of serious infection, the need for parenteral nutrition and narcotic analgesia, and increased hospitalization and feeding-tube placement.

    DWS Pill Scribe pillscribe 2010

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