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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a safety alert for proton pump inhibitors .

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that certain stomach-acid medications known as proton-pump inhibitors, or PPIs, can trigger the development of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, a bacterial infection that can be particularly hazardous to the elderly.

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Oseltamivir. Esomeprazole. Trastuzumab. Where do drugs get those odd-sounding generic names? The answers are in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News , the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, which explains the logic behind the tongue-twisters. Drahl writes that these stems ... (more)