11.   A judge heard an impassioned plea from a mother to reject a feeding tube for her severely handicapped son Tuesday, but delayed action until physicians could be questioned.

12.   A misplaced feeding tube killed another.

13.   About half of the birds Charos treated with antibiotics and feeding tubes recovered, and he released them into the wild.

14.   After weeks of turmoil and anguish, the family reluctantly decided to remove the feeding tube.

15.   Albany Medical Center Hospital last year posted a job description that called for patient care associates to insert catheters and feeding tubes in the nose.

16.   But he still eats through a feeding tube, suffers from fevers twice a month, and fights back infections on a bed sore that is slow to heal.

17.   But his family is rejecting a feeding tube.

18.   But less than two weeks later, the nursing home put a feeding tube into her stomach and restarted nutrition, keeping her alive five more months.

19.   Doctors put a feeding tube in his stomach and gave him a tracheotomy.

20.   Doctors have installed a feeding tube in his abdomen.