However, buttons aren’t the best option for everyone, Epp says. For instance, people who stay on a pump with continuous feeding throughout the day often prefer a tube, which can feel more secure.

Feeding tubes help thousands suffering from diseases stay alive. One-year-old Ariya Ruffin is one of those thousands, having been born with short bowel syndrome.

If she continues to have this feeding tube, she could continue to live. She’s just at the low end of the quality of life scale.

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The placement of a feeding tube reduces the risk of "aspiration pneumonia," but it neither prevents that complication nor appears to prolong life, according to published research and medical experts.

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Thirteen days after her feeding tube was removed, brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo died Thursday morning at her Pinellas Park hospice. A discussion about some of the issues raised by the ...

He said medical assistance was being provided by the Vatican medical staff under the direction of the pope’s personal physician, Dr. Renato Buzzonetti. The insertion of the feeding tube was the latest ...

"The feeding tube was left inside for 35 years… that’s my whole life," she said, bursting into tears. "They took my whole life. I was only 25 years old and I couldn’t have no more kids.