Many Hospital Patients Get Unnecessary Nutrition Tubes
Researchers looked at how often hospitals use a special type of nutrition support called peripheral parenteral nutrition (PPN) – basically liquid nutrition …
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When Your Food Pipe Tears: New Ways to Treat This Serious Problem
Doctors studied 32 patients who had tears in their esophagus (the tube that carries food to your stomach). Some tears happened suddenly without warning, while …
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