What is Acid Reflux

Did you know that when acid-blocking drugs first came on the market, pharmaceutical reps warned doctors to only prescribe them for patients who had documented ulcers, and then for no more than six weeks?

In the last 15 years, rising levels of acid reflux disease in the United States have caused a corresponding rise in cancer. Instances of esophageal cancer have approximately doubled in that time.

MANILA, Philippines - Manny Pacquiao was silent Sunday on reports he gave up his World Boxing Council (WBC) Lightweight title in order to go ahead with his much-awaited bout with Golden Boy Oscar de la Hoya.

FREDDIE ROACH said on Friday that he will personally scrutinize even the minutest detail about the Pacquiao-De la Hoya mega showdown. One such issue that has been brought up? The correct way of taping boxers’ hands.

LOS ANGELES, California—The applause seemed more respectful than awe-inspired. At the end of eight more rounds of sparring, the refreshingly sparse holiday crowd at the Wild Card Gym broke out in a light applause as a couple of trainers herded Manny Pacquiao back to a corner.

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Myths come from ignorance. They are generally handed down to us by others - our grandparents, parents, teachers, books, friends, newspapers, magazines, the society and so on. Because myths masquerade as facts, we often accept them blindly.

LOS ANGELES — Save for an episode during the tail-end of his workout on Thanksgiving Day, Manny Pacquiao gave trainer Freddie Roach all the reason to be content and satisfied heading into the final push for the Dec. 6 fight with Oscar De La Hoya.

LOS ANGELES - Manny Pacquiao played along and got tagged a couple of times when he sparred for eight rounds Thursday at the Wild Card Gym.

MANNY PACQUIAO appeared listless in training camp on Thursday, blaming a bout with acid reflux as the cause for his sub-par showing at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles.

MANILA, Philippines - Manny Pacquiao appeared listless in training camp on Thursday, blaming a bout with acid reflux as the cause for his sub-par showing at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles.

Parties. For many, they’re the highlight of the holiday season. But they also may aggravate the symptoms of acid reflux. Here’s how to have fun without suffering.

Courtesy photo Audra Malone (center) enjoys a weekend with her children, Spencer, 5, holding his dog, Kacie, and 18-month-old Halle, who was born with a congenital heart defect.

Thanksgiving dinner certainly tastes good going down, but what follows afterwards may have you reaching for a bottle of antacid instead of a second helping.

It was a summer day in 1995 when Selma resident Nazario Martinez’s body went completely numb. Recently unemployed, Martinez was at a regional office filling out paperwork to get unemployment benefits for a few weeks. As the numbness in his body wore on, it got worse. “I didn’t know what was going on,” he says. It got so bad that when he got home, he had to crawl from his car into his house. …

For some people, certain foods can bring about or worsen pain.

Better cancer detection, better treatments and fewer people smoking - all of these factors are driving cancer statistics that have never been better, CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

I was watching Sunday Night Football recently and was told about all I needed to know about heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD.

NORWALK - A doctor at Norwalk Hospital is pioneering a new treatment that freezes cells in the esophagus to treat a potentially precancerous condition.

There’s very good news in the war on cancer. The rate of both new diagnoses and cancer deaths are declining significantly. Dr. Jon LaPook looks at some of the contributing factors, such as better detection and fewer people smoking.