Oral drugs such as Cimetidine and Ranitidine which are Histamine H2 antagonists, and Omeprazole, which is a proton-pump inhibitor, have shown a significant benefit in the prevention and treatment of ...

“We know when there’s secret drug testing, families are often torn apart,” said New York state Rep. Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat from Manhattan, who noted cases of women who were reported to child ...

Helicobacter pylori, best known for causing stomach ulcers, was shown to block the build-up of both amyloid-beta and tau in ...

The first lawsuit claiming that gastrointestinal drug Zantac causes cancer has been voluntarily dismissed a week before it was due to come to trial, in an early victory for the pharma companies ...

GSK has reached an agreement that it says will resolve 93% of the outstanding lawsuits brought against the company claiming that its gastrointestinal drug Zantac caused cancer.

Prophylaxis against stress ulcers has been recommended for the prevention of UGI bleeding in critically ill adults patients. A systematic review published more than one decade ago found that ...

An underground network of feminists and activists developed new models of care for abortion that eventually helped legalize abortion in countries across Latin America.

During the 1980s elective peptic ulcer surgery declined by 85%, which can be mainly attributed to the use of the H 2 RAs cimetidine and ranitidine. [1] ...

Summary and Introduction Over the past few decades, since the introduction of histamine H 2 -receptor antagonists, proton-pump inhibitors, cyclo-oxygenase-2-selective anti-inflammatory drugs (coxibs), ...