Feeding Tube

Despite their press, crows really aren't such bad characters (Knoxville News Sentinal) - 204 weeks ago

Dark crow, with beady black eyes and menacing beak, cocks its head and studies passersby. This harbinger of autumn featured in Halloween displays is associated with bad luck, death and all things sinister. A crow's attention can be unnerving.

Community pulls together in support of Midway family (Sampson Independent) - 204 weeks ago

After nearly eight years of marriage and two beautiful young children, Scott and Tina Gardner were in a place in their lives when everything seemed to be going well.

Incapacitation law called unconstitutional (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) - 204 weeks ago

Hawaii's law governing removal of feeding tubes from an incapacitated or brain-dead patient is unconstitutional, a noted bioethics professor says.

Iowa family's U-Haul stolen after moving to Las Vegas (KVBC Las Vegas) - 204 weeks ago

Back in August, we told you about a new teacher to our Valley who's truck and U-Haul were stolen from a hotel parking lot. Since then, others haven fallen victim to this type of crime. The latest is a family who just moved here from Iowa, hoping to start a new life in Las Vegas.

Mothers share breastfeeding tales (The Halifax Daily News) - 204 weeks ago

Shauna O'Brien of Upper Tantallon and five other mothers hope what they know will help others raise healthy children.

Red alert as climate change takes its toll on Scotland (The Scotsman) - 204 weeks ago

SCOTLAND was put on red alert over climate change yesterday, with experts saying it was already responsible for placing endangered species at greater risk, for rising sea levels, major floods and landslides.

Parents hope for liver transplant for sick toddler (Everett Herald) - 204 weeks ago

Puffy pink cheeks that scream to be pinched make Ashley Boyer, 2, all the more adorable. But underneath her blond, curly mop and alabaster skin lurks a killer disease.

Want healthy kids? Limit TV, eat with them, go outside together. It's up to you (The Morning Call) - 204 weeks ago

Many parents and pediatricians already know it. Now a report from the Institute of Medicine confirms it: Childhood obesity is getting worse.

Super Chow, Laced With Semi-synthetic Vitamin E Derivative, Inhibited Spread Of Cancer In Mice (Science Daily) - 204 weeks ago

A chemically altered form of vitamin E mixed into mouse chow dramatically reduced spread of aggressive mammary cancer in mice, suggesting that the compound in pill form could be used to treat human metastatic cancer, according to a report in the October 1 issue of the journal Cancer Research.

Feeding tube error led to death of man, 88 (prestontoday.net) - 205 weeks ago

An elderly man died after a nurse who inserted a feeding tube missed his stomach and pushed it into his abdomen instead, an inquest heard. (27/09/2006 15:19:51)