VERIFY viewer Casey recently sent a text to our team asking if food can actually go down the wrong pipe. The medical term for food going down the wrong pipe is called aspiration, according to the ...

When a mouthful of water goes down the wrong pipe – heading toward a healthy person’s lungs instead of their gut – they start coughing uncontrollably. That’s because their upper airway senses the ...

Swallowing difficulties, or dysphagia, affect up to 80% of people with Parkinson's disease and can lead to serious ...