CHICAGO -- Centenarians who required percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) appeared to do as well with the tube placement, researchers reported here. In-hospital mortality for the 30 patients over ...

Fifty-six (65.9%) of the present patients having PEG procedures had neurological disorders. Other indications were nasopharynx cancer, esophagus cancer, and aspiration problems. Percutaneous ...

Long-term disease control of ≥2 years achieved with cabozantinib in subjects with metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma on a phase I study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual ...

A feeding tube is a device that’s inserted into your stomach through your abdomen. It’s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Feeding tube insertion is also called percutaneous ...

Romiplostim management of chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia. Phase III open label randomized controlled trial comparing intravenous iron sucrose to oral ferrous sulphate (without erythropoiesis ...

Halyard Health (NYSE: HYH), formerly Kimberly-Clark Health Care, today announced the introduction of an improved placement kit for its Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) tube, the MIC* PEG tube ...

Within a 5-year period, 92 PEG tube were inserted into 85 patients (22 female, 63 male). Excluding one patient, a 5-year-old girl, their ages ranged from 20 to 87 years with a mean age of 55.94 ± ...