(ARA) — Nearly 19 million Americans currently live with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), commonly known as acid reflux disease, and suffer from painful and uncomfortable symptoms such as frequent and persistent heartburn.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved KAPIDEX (TM) (dexlansoprazole) delayed release capsules for the once-daily, oral treatment of heartburn associated with symptomatic [...]

(ARA) — Nearly 19 million Americans currently live with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), commonly known as acid reflux disease, and suffer from painful and uncomfortable symptoms such as frequent and persistent heartburn.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved KAPIDEX (TM) (dexlansoprazole) delayed release capsules for the once-daily, oral treatment of heartburn associated with symptomatic [...]

Although we might look forward to Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner every year, we don’t look forward to the heartburn.  When you overindulge in food and under indulgence in exercise, then your body will get into a panic at trying to digest all of the food at once.  Your stomach will go into overdrive with acid [...]

Indigestion is one of the seemingly universal maladies of life.  You can get indigestion at any age, usually from eating too much or too many rich foods that your body just can’t handle.  If you eat too much, like at Thanksgiving, the stomach needs to go into overdrive in order to break down your banquet.  [...]

You have that burning, bitterly foul taste in your mouth again.  You feel cramped, bloated and feel as if you swallowed a bottle of Tabasco sauce.  You wonder if inserting the garden hose into your mouth and turning it on might – JUST might – put out the burn inside.  If this only happens a [...]

You hear the term “acid indigestion” so frequently in television and radio advertisements that you probably feel as if you are expert on acid indigestion.  But do you really know what it is and when to see a doctor?
What Is It?
Acid indigestion is a twin to heartburn, but they are slightly different, as all twins [...]

Heartburn is often caused by a variety of factors, so it will take a many-pronged plan of attack in order to gain heartburn relief.  By making changes in your diet, exercise and how you handle stress, you can assure that any medicines for heartburn relief you are taking will work their best.  If you have [...]

Heartburn afflicts a large amount of people on a minor scale but for the unlucky few, heartburn can become so severe that it affects their quality of health and becomes a scary experience.  Searching for pain relief when suffering from bad heartburn is essential especially if you cannot sleep or dread eating a meal because [...]

Many of us suffer from heartburn, especially in the Western World where our diets are becoming increasingly unhealthy.  There are many factors that contribute to heartburn symptoms and the best thing for curing heartburn is often to prevent it in the first place.  Sometimes, heartburn cannot be avoided but if we all take some simple [...]

Indigestion can ruin a great meal or a great day.  The symptoms of indigestion can be awful and sometimes frightening.  Most people suffering from indigestion have a burning sensation behind their breastbone which is near the heart.  The source of the sensation seems to be the heart so many people worry that the symptoms of [...]