Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Yadlapati and colleagues enrolled 128 patients with heartburn, regurgitation, chest pain and inadequate PPI ...

Four days is an optimal time for wireless reflux monitoring to determine which patients can stop taking proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and which ones need long-term antireflux therapy, researchers ...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), already one of the most common gastrointestinal conditions, is increasing in prevalence, yet it remains a difficult disease to diagnose. In North America, ...

Acid reflux rates parallel obesity epidemic, experts say. Dec. 27, 2011 — -- Claresa Fisher, 57, hasn't had a good night's sleep in the past eight years. Fisher said the intense burning through ...

Rebutting conventional wisdom, a large Swedish study finds that most people with chronic acid reflux, or GERD, do not have a higher risk for developing cancer of the esophagus. "Previous studies have ...

High angle shot of a beautiful young woman sleeping in her bed at home during the night Investigators assessed the impact of different sleep positions on the incidence of nocturnal acid reflux. Left ...

Millions of Americans take medications known as proton pump inhibitors every day to treat heartburn and acid reflux, and in recent years, these drugs, also known as PPIs, have been linked to a greater ...

Introduction: Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is frequent in preterm infants and conservative postural treatment is recommended. Few studies are available on the effects of body positioning on GER in ...

A new study found a link between certain types of acid reflux medications and dementia. Patients who took proton pump inhibitors consistently for more than 4.4 years had a greater risk of dementia ...

Millions of Americans take medications known as proton pump inhibitors every day to treat heartburn and acid reflux, and in recent years, these drugs, also known as PPIs, have been linked to a greater ...