The announcement of the pope’s condition comes amid fears over his ability to serve. Acknowledging that the pope’s recovery has been slow, the Vatican said Wednesday that John Paul II is now receiving ...

VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II on Wednesday (March 30) had a plastic feeding tube inserted into his nose, down the back of his throat and through his esophagus to carry nourishment directly to his ...

ROME — Pope John Paul II is receiving added nutrition through a tube in his nose, the Vatican announced yesterday, acknowledging for the first time that the pontiff’s recovery from throat surgery has ...

ROME – Acknowledging that the pontiff’s recovery has been slow, the Vatican said yesterday that Pope John Paul II is now receiving nutrition through a feeding tube in his nose to give him strength.

VATICAN CITY — In another sign of Pope John Paul II's growing frailty, the Vatican said Wednesday that the 84-year-old pontiff was getting nutrition from a tube in his nose and acknowledged his ...

Nose feeding tubes are typically used on patients who are suffering from head or neck cancer and cannot swallow. They are those patients’ nutritional lifelines. But now some women are turning to those ...

Weight-obsessed women willing to do anything to get into that strapless wedding dress are resorting to a nasogastric tube diet, which pumps protein nourishment through the nose, down the esophagus and ...

Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...