ASK THE ETHICISTS: The Church teaches that providing nutrition and hydration is morally required only when these benefit the patient and do not cause excessive burdens. The Catechism of the Catholic ...

DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) - The case over a severely brain-damaged woman remains frozen in a legal stalemate today after a Florida appeals court first cleared the way for her husband to remove her feeding ...

(LOUISVILLE, October 17th, 2003, 4 p.m.)-- Doctors say a brain damaged Florida woman will be dead within days. Doctors removed her feeding tube Wednesday at her husband's request after an appeals ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. Doctors removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube Friday despite an extraordinary, last-minute push by Republicans on Capitol Hill to use the subpoena powers of Congress to save the ...

PINELLAS PARK, FLA. - A judge gave Terri Schiavo's husband permission to remove the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube in three weeks, handing him a victory in his effort to carry out what he says ...

In the field of cancer medicine, the prevailing wisdom is that early detection and diagnosis saves lives. Catching cancer at earlier stages generally improves patient outcomes and increases chances of ...

Enteral feeding, also called tube feeding, is a method of feeding that provides nutrition and calories when a person can’t chew or swallow. This generally involves providing nutrition through a tube ...