A new study is providing clues that may answer a decades-old question about the cells that give rise to a particularly lethal form of esophageal cancer…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on January 21st, 2012 | No Comments »
Jack Selby, of Lansing, Mich., had suffered from heartburn all of his life, especially around the holidays when he overindulged in some of his favorite food and drink…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on December 27th, 2011 | No Comments »
A long-term Norwegian study reveals the number of people who experience acid reflux at least once a week has gone up by nearly 50% in the last 10 years, with women appearing to be more susceptible to the condition than men…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on December 24th, 2011 | No Comments »
A long-term Norwegian study reveals the number of people who experience acid reflux at least once a week has gone up by nearly 50% in the last 10 years, with women appearing to be more susceptible to the condition than men…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on December 23rd, 2011 | No Comments »
Patients who complain of upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms often face a diagnosis of either gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or functional dyspepsia. Because the two conditions often overlap, it can be difficult to distinguish between them and diagnose them properly…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on November 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »
Frequent spitting up, irritability, and unexplained crying in infants can be very distressing to parents. Pediatricians often prescribe acid-suppressing drugs for these symptoms in an effort to treat infants for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD); however, GERD is an uncommon cause of these symptoms in otherwise thriving infants…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on October 24th, 2011 | No Comments »
Infants who are frequently spitting up, irritable, and cry for unknown reasons can be extremely worrying for parents. The infants are often prescribed with acid-suppressing drugs by their pediatricians in an attempt to treat them for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) but in otherwise thriving infants GERD is not a common cause of these symptoms…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on October 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
Frequent spitting up, irritability and unexplained crying in infants are often very distressing to parents. Physicians frequently prescribe acid-suppressing drugs for these symptoms. However, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is an uncommon cause of these symptoms in otherwise thriving infants, and in his Commentary published in the October 20th issue of The Journal of Pediatrics, Dr…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on October 20th, 2011 | No Comments »
New plain-language reports compare the risks and benefits of therapies for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a digestive condition that affects millions of individuals in the U.S., and can be treated with medications or surgery. The reports are from the U.S…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on September 25th, 2011 | No Comments »
Withdrawal from PPIs (proton pump inhibitors) can lead to severe rebound acid secretion, a complication that can force users to become dependent on them - this should be mentioned in a black-box warning, consumer group Public Citizen has told the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)…
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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on August 25th, 2011 | No Comments »