News tagged with gastric acidity

Study shows zinc salts offer rapid relief from gastric reflux

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that could revolutionize how millions of people are treated for painful gastric acid-related diseases, a team led by Yale School of Medicine researchers has shown that zinc salts offer rapid, prolonged ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Finnish firm to market cancer-prevention capsule

Finnish medical biotechnology group Biohit said Monday it had developed a capsule that could help prevent stomach and throat cancer by neutralising the cancer-causing compound acetaldehyde.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Etiologic factors of gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma among men in Taiwan

The gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma (GCA) is a very rare disease. In recent decades, however, the incidence of the GCA has increased dramatically in many Western countries. An increasing trend in GCA is also observed in municipal ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Commonly used ulcer drugs may offer treatment potential in Alzheimer's disease

In a new study, published in the May issue of Elsevier's Experimental Neurology, scientists at the University of British Columbia have discovered that drugs commonly used to treat ulcers have significant neuroprotective proper ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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