Background Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have been widely used for over 35 years. However, in recent decades, numerous ...

Severe esophageal symptoms that do not respond to standard treatment may warrant endoscopic evaluation and targeted ...

Objective: To systematically review studies qualitatively to compare the risks (gastrointestinal [GI] and cardiovascular) and benefits (pain control) of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors (coxibs) relative ...

Although proton pump inhibitors may reduce heartburn and gastrointestinal bleeding in hospital patients, the therapy may also raise their mortality risk, according to a recent study published in the ...

Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are frequently prescribed to suppress stomach acid in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Prescribing rates of PPIs in children have risen more than 500 ...

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely used medications that alter gut microbiota. Given the high prevalence of colonic diverticulosis and its increasing incidence in younger populations, we ...

A practitioner has outlined the 'two problems' that could arise from taking proton pump inhibitors (PPI), such as omeprazole, ...

Health-care providers that treat patients who use proton pump inhibitors (PPI) and experience diarrhea that does not improve, should consider the bacterium Clostridium difficile in the differential ...