Topic: Internal Medicine
You may have known that acid reflux is not as common as the common cold, but to those who are suffering from this, this disorder can be far more problematic. Most commonly, people with this disorder, suffer from recurring chest pains, heart burns and even nausea. In severe cases, this medical disorder may lead to laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (that is ...
Gastresophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a syndrome due to structural or functional incompetence of the lower esophageal sphincter, which permits retrograde flow of acidic gastric juice into the esophagus. The underlying abnormality in GERD is apparently inborn and irreversible and the incidence increases with age. In addition to reflux, most cases involve disordered gastric motility and prolonged gastric emptying time ...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators are taking a closer look at how well devices used by diabetics to monitor their blood sugars work, seeking possible changes for device makers to help make them more reliable. At a two-day meeting to review blood glucose meters, Food and Drug Administration officials and staff pointed to a number of issues that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black women who tend to eat foods more likely to lead to higher blood sugar may have slightly greater risk for uterine fibroids, suggest study findings. Uterine fibroids - noncancerous growths that often cause heavy menstrual bleeding and cramping during childbearing years - are 2 to 3 times more likely in black women than in other American women ...
