AcipHex, Rabeprazole News

When people sit down on Thanksgiving to turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potato casserole, cranberries, and pie, the last thing they want to think about is acid reflux.

Proton pump inhibitors have become hugely successful money makers for Big Pharma over the past decade, with sales of these stomach-acid reducers adding up to about $25.6 billion last year alone.

The latest issue of the Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics compares standard- with double-dose proton pump inhibitors for the healing of severe erosive esophagitis.

Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid, Aciphex. These and a dozen more drugs known as proton pump inhibitors have quickly become superstars of Big Pharma.

NEW Abstract AIM: To observe the pharmacokinetics and pharmaco-dynamics of rabeprazole and compare serum gastrin concentrations in different CYP2C19 genotype groups.

Everything we ingest will eventually make its way through our digestive system, and depending on how our system is working, that can be a good thing or not so good.

A new study has added to the concern that commonly used proton-pump inhibitors may interfere with Plavix in people who have coronary artery disease.