GERD News

• How Should We Treat GERD Associated With a Chronic Cough? It is difficult to establish a causal link between a cough and GERD when the latter is present, even when the patient has a diagnosis of GERD.
  Medscape Medical News, December 14, 2023
• No Adverse Effects From Steroids in Pregnant Women With EoE 'Our recommendations about the use of steroids among this population are based on the safety data extrapolated mainly from pregnant women with asthma.'
  MDedge News, December 01, 2023
• AASLD 2023 Low-Dose Aspirin Reduces Liver Fat, Inflammation Markers A single daily low dose of aspirin significantly reduced hepatic fat fraction and liver transaminase levels in a randomized trial in patients with metabolic-associated steatotic liver disease.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2023
• ChatGPT Gives Incorrect Answers About EoE ChatGPT provides a mix of accurate and inaccurate information to common questions about eosinophilic esophagitis, according to a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2023
• ACAAI 2023 Survey: 42% of PCPs Not Familiar With Biologics for Asthma Patients with asthma are regularly seen by primary care providers (PCPs), but a survey found that 82% of PCPs do not order labs, and 90% do not use absolute eosinophil counts to guide care.
  Medscape Medical News, November 10, 2023
• Alert FDA OKs New Treatment for Erosive Esophagitis Vonoprazan (Voquezna) is indicated for the healing and maintenance of healing of all grades of erosive esophagitis, as well as relief of associated heartburn in adults.
  Medscape Medical News, November 02, 2023
• Exercise as Good as Viagra for ED: Study Men with the most severe erectile dysfunction saw the greatest benefit from working out.
  WebMD Health News, October 23, 2023
• GSK Settles Another California Lawsuit on Heartburn Drug Zantac GSK on Wednesday said it agreed to settle another lawsuit in California alleging its discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, as the British drugmaker sought to end costly litigation that has weighed on shares.
  Reuters Health Information, October 11, 2023
• Anti-Acid Meds Lower Strength of Systemic Sclerosis Drug Weakened bioavailability of mycophenolate mofetil could require adjustments in treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, October 10, 2023
• AstraZeneca to Settle US Lawsuits Over Heartburn Drugs AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $425 million to settle about 11,000 lawsuits in the US that claimed its heartburn drugs Nexium and Prilosec caused chronic kidney disease.
  Reuters Health Information, October 03, 2023
• Endoscopic Monitoring May Not Be Needed for Nonerosive GERD Patients with nonerosive GERD do not have a greater risk for esophageal cancer compared with the general population and are unlikely to need additional endoscopic monitoring for cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, September 27, 2023
• Solid Therapeutic Hierarchy for EoE Still Unclear Most available drugs for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) demonstrate greater efficacy than placebo, but data are too heterogenous to determine a reliable therapeutic hierarchy.
  MDedge News, September 25, 2023
• Does Anti-Reflux Surgery Cut Esophageal Cancer Risk? The risk of esophageal cancer was not decreased but rather increased among patients with Barrett esophagus who underwent anti-reflux surgery compared to medically managed peers in a large study.
  Medscape Medical News, September 18, 2023
• Real-World Data Confirm Efficacy of Dupilumab in Severe EoE Dupilumab demonstrated real-world efficacy in patients with severe, treatment-refractory fibrostenotic eosinophilic esophagitis, most of whom would not have qualified for prior clinical trials.
  Medscape Medical News, September 18, 2023
• How to Manage Heartburn Cost-Effectively After PPI Failure Endoscopy with ambulatory reflux monitoring was the most cost-effective approach to managing patients with heartburn in whom empirical proton pump inhibitor therapy failed.
  Medscape Medical News, September 14, 2023
• Turmeric May Be as Effective as Omeprazole for Dyspepsia Curcumin, a compound found in the spice turmeric, may be as effective as the proton pump inhibitor omeprazole for treating indigestion.
  Medscape Medical News, September 12, 2023
• Frequency and Duration of GERD Associated With Poor Sleep The findings suggest that treating gastroesophageal reflux may do more than offer symptomatic relief.
  MDedge News, September 11, 2023
• Probing the Link Between GERD and Anxiety/Depression Shared genetics may underlie the common observation that patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease commonly have anxiety or depressive symptoms, and vice versa, an analysis suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, September 08, 2023
• Mepolizumab Improves Asthma After 1 Y Despite Comorbidities To assess the impact of mepolizumab on patients with comorbidities, the researchers conducted a post hoc analysis of 822 adults with severe asthma.
  MDedge News, September 01, 2023
• AI Tool Predicts Certain GI Cancers Years in Advance A machine learning tool embedded in the electronic health record accurately predicted esophageal adenocarcinoma and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma years before diagnosis.
  Medscape Medical News, August 29, 2023
• PPIs Linked to Long-Term Infection in Kids Experts said the new data show the importance of limiting use of this type of acid suppressant in children.
  Medscape Medical News, August 29, 2023
• First Guidelines Developed for Childhood EGIDs Beyond EoE Limited existing literature spurred the development of a consensus document to guide the diagnosis and treatment of rare eosinophilic diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2023