Nexium (drug)

Regarding Leon Reinstein's letter castigating Sen. Barbara Mikulski for leading the effort to defeat a Senate amendment making it easier to obtain drugs from Canada ("Mikulski wrong to oppose Canadian drug imports," Oct. 25), I would like to share a...

The folks at Pet Poison Helpline share this report that details the top-selling human medications and the potential dangers these drugs pose to pets. The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics recently released a report that included the top five...

The widely used family of acid-reducing drugs that includes Prilosec, Nexium and Protonix increases the risk of bone fractures by about 25% and can more than double the risk of contracting the troublesome bacterium Clostridium difficile, new studies...

It wasn`t the straw that broke the camel`s back that caused this lawsuit... It was the Nexium that broke Ginny Begin`s leg... at least that`s what her Houston lawyer claims... so she`s filed a lawsuit against AstraZeneca, the makers of Nexium. Begin is...

The Food and Drug Administration warned today that patients taking the blood-thinning drug Plavix should avoid taking the acid reflux medications Prilosec and Nexium because they can interfere with Plavix's activity, reducing its efficacy by half. Plavix,...

Prescription heartburn drugs, which have been burning a hole in consumers' wallets for years, could be in for another price break. Patients who take the popular brand-name proton-pump inhibitor known as Protonix, sold by New Jersey drug giant Wyeth,...

Jay Cohen believes he knows what went wrong in Michael Hope's life. Hope, 56, sits in his home in the San Gabriel Valley and tries to use his brain, an effort of tortuous frustration for a former quick-thinking business executive. Not only does he suffer...