What is Acid Reflux

BOSTON (Reuters) – Merck's popular osteoporosis drug Fosamax and other similar drugs may carry a risk for esophageal cancer, a Food and Drug Administration official said on Wednesday.

By Gene Emery

Merck’s popular osteoporosis drug Fosamax and other similar drugs may carry a risk for esophageal cancer, a Food and Drug Administration official said on Wednesday.

Today is the last day to use what is left in your Flexible Spending Accounts. While it is probably too late to get in to see the dentist, there are a few ways to spend what is left in the account so you don’t lose the money.

Twin brothers A.J. and Drew Collishaw are Mario Kart masters. And if they’re not in front of their Nintendo Wii playing games, they’re out playing with real golf clubs, basketballs or soccer balls.

Chronic gastrointestinal symptoms are highly prevalent in different geographic populations and cause various gastrointestinal symptoms that greatly inconvenience the lives of those affected.

SEOUL, Dec. 29 (UPI) — Some in South Korea experience chronic gastrointestinal symptoms fairly frequently, researchers said.

Patient Wladimir Valoyes listens as Dr. Peter Maher and Barbara McCabe, director of the AmeriCares Free Clinic in Norwalk, discuss his chart earlier this month. The clinic has experienced a 25 percent increase in patients this year.

( World Journal of Gastroenterology ) A research group in Korea surveyed chronic gastrointestinal symptoms and health-related quality of life in the Korean general population. Dyspepsia was found to be the most common chronic gastrointestinal symptom, and the prevalence of GERD as well as IBS was lower than that in Western countries. The presence of chronic gastrointestinal symptoms was found to …

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D.C. Fire Chief Dennis L. Rubin has asked the city’s inspector general to investigate his agency’s handling of an emergency call in which a Northeast Washington man complaining of chest pains and trouble breathing died hours after paramedics told him he had acid reflux and did not take him to a…

The second annual international medical education course on the advanced minimally invasive technique called NOTES — natural-orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery — was presented by the gastroenterologists and surgeons who helped pioneer the revolutionary technique, which allows for minimally invasive surgical access to internal organs through existing body openings.

BARACK OBAMA: On vacation in Hawaii, the president-elect snacked on Spam sushi. The White House chef quit in a huff. PARIS HILTON: The heiress’ house was robbed of $2 million in valuables. She made the money back the next day at an opening of — I don’t know — a dog pound.

If you’re one of those stadium-fund-half-empty types, you couldn’t help but notice, in the wake of Saturday night’s Emerald Bowl, that Cal’s Bears exited the 2008 season the same way they entered it — with uncertainty under center.

Figuring out which Medicare drug-insurance plan is right for you is confusing enough. Now, complaints are mounting about an obscure drug-pricing system that can force many older Americans to pay stiff penalties when they opt for brand-name drugs instead of a generic.

CANCER of the throat is also known as laryngeal cancer. The larynx consists of three main areas – supraglottis, glottis and sub glottis.