A statistically significant difference was observed in the average daytime heartburn severity between patients randomised to lansoprazole 30mg compared with those randomised to esomeprazole 40mg ...

MICHAEL SMITH, MD: If you regularly take certain medicines for heartburn, you might think twice before you pop that pill. Drugs like Nexium, Prevacid, and Prilosec are called proton pump ...

Remember "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is"? Well, heartburn drugs have changed a lot since that TV jingle became popular. Americans spent $6 billion on the acid-reflux drug Nexium ...

GERD is a condition that makes you prone to ... Three—omeprazole (Prilosec, Prilosec OTC), lansoprazole (Prevacid, Prevacid 24HR), and omeprazole/sodium bicarbonate (Zegerid, Zegerid OTC ...

Acid reflux is common in children with asthma. Doctors studied about 300 children and teenagers. Half took Prevacid each day. The others received dummy pills. Researchers say asthma symptoms didn ...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a chronic condition where ... Another trial demonstrated that vonoprazan was superior to lansoprazole in healing erosive esophagitis, with a higher ...

Patients with symptomatic GERD based on pre-set criteria were assigned a unique patient number which encoded the randomisation in a 1 : 1 ratio to one of the two treatment groups (lansoprazole ...