Antacid drugs may increase your risk of suffering a stroke, especially if you take a higher or prolonged dose. Antacid drugs are taken by millions of Americans to quell the unsettling chest discomfort ...

Amidst recent recalls over a suspected carcinogen used in the over-the-counter acid reflux medication Zantac, the Food and Drug Administration has released a list of safer antacid alternatives that ...

Antacid drugs like Tums, Pepcid and its generic version, famotidine, are facing shortages across the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Times reported. Studies in the spring indicated ...

Chronic use of some drugs for heartburn and gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) speeds up the aging of blood vessels, according to a published paper in Circulation Research (early online), an American ...

(Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who take antacids may be more likely to have children who go on to develop asthma than their counterparts who don’t take these medications, a research review suggests ...

BENGALURU, Sept 27 (Reuters) - India's drug regulator has found more than 50 drugs, including some batches of widely used antacids and paracetamol, to be substandard or fake, according to government ...

NEW DELHI: As many as 84 batches of certain drugs, including some of the commonly prescribed steroids and cholesterol ...