A new study overturns the long-held practice of treating chronic asthma patients with medication for acid reflux. The study published this week’s New England Journal of Medicine finds that the drugs, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients often have asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease. There was a negative correlation between ...

Children love to play, but asthma can keep them out of the game. Many children have an added problem, acid reflux, which may make their asthma worse. Duke researchers, along with a national study, are ...

Asthma and acid reflux often occur together. It isn’t clear why, or whether one causes the other. But we do know that acid reflux can worsen asthma and asthma can worsen acid reflux — especially ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A correlation between asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease approached statistical significance in a ...

BOSTON, April 8 (Reuters) - Nexium, AstraZeneca 's drug developed to fight acid reflux and widely prescribed for decades to quell the symptoms of asthma, does little to help adults breathe easier, ...

At first glance, eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and asthma may seem like two very different conditions. The former causes inflammation in the esophagus, leading to trouble swallowing, while asthma ...

Stephen J. Sontag, M.D., F.A.C.G., F.A.C.P. and Susan M. Harding, M.D., F.C.C.P., D.-A.B.S.M. Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) and asthma are common in the general ...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), already one of the most common gastrointestinal conditions, is increasing in prevalence, yet it remains a difficult disease to diagnose. In North America, ...