Gerd News

It's being called the next step in the evolution of surgery. Surgery without an incision doesn't even sound like surgery, but for the 60 million people in the United States who suffer from Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease or chronic acid reflux, it's a new treatment option they can get excited about.

Today's expert is Dr. Nikhilesh Sekhar, Surgical Associates of Neenah, Theda Clark Medical Center.

The most recent issue of Annals of Surgery investigated the 10-year outcome of laparoscopic and conventional nissen fundoplication.

World Trade Center workers who were at Ground Zero for months after September 11, 2001, continue to have higher-than-normal rates of heartburn and acid reflux even years later.

People who are taking drugs called proton pump inhibitors to treat GERD and laryngopharyngeal reflux should be aware of possible unexpected side effects and complications, according to a new report published in Otolaryngologya 'Head and Neck Surgery .

Losing weight, raising the head of the bed, not eating late at night: All of these can help alleviate the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD.

How much money do you really need to spend to treat frequent heartburn or even acid reflux? $250 a month? $120 a month? Try as little as $24. Last year U.S. consumers and their insurance companies spent an astonishing $4.8 billion on Nexium, one of several prescription proton-pump inhibitors to treat heartburn and acid reflux.

Halloween is tricky for anyone watching her waistline, but for chronic heartburn sufferers, all those goodies can make for a miserable night.

Santarus, Inc. , a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that positive data from two investigator-initiated studies with ZEGERID will be presented in poster sessions at the American College of Gastroenterology 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting taking place in San Diego.

XenoPort, Inc. announced today that it has initiated a Phase 2b clinical trial of arbaclofen placarbil , also known as XP19986, in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease who remain symptomatic despite treatment with a proton pump inhibitor .

Put an end to the misery. Sarah Baldauf and January W. Payne Premium Health News Service October 14, 2009 Sign Up Today for HK Newsletters & Alerts There's something about digestive difficulties that makes them hard to discuss in polite company--which leaves many of us suffering one problem or another in silence.

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.

Pregnant women are among the most common sufferers of chronic heartburn, a condition also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease .

Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 2:20 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 2:20 p.m. My recent column on acid reflux was picked up by Smartbrief.com/dhsb, a digestive health Web site, and as a result, I heard from Joyce Springer in Fort Myers and Pat Bollinger in Helena, Mont.

Do you have heartburn that just won't quit? You may have gastroesophageal reflux disease , a condition in which stomach acid routinely backs up in the esophagus.

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ADX10059 is a first-in-class reflux inhibitor that works by reducing activation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 through negative allosteric modulation .

Dr. Jon LaPook undergoes an upper endoscopy on-camera. If you're from a Western country, there's a 10-20 percent chance that you suffer from classic symptoms of acid reflux: chronic heartburn and/or acid regurgitation.

I have a build up of gas and burping relieves the discomfort and pressure in the throat.

You may have heard it referred to as heartburn or acid indigestion, but the formal diagnosis is gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD for short.