Medically reviewed by Leigh Weddle, PharmD Some medications can quietly affect how your body absorbs or uses specific ...

Over a median follow-up of 5.5 years, people in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort who used prescribed PPIs for more than 4.4 years had a higher risk of dementia (adjusted HR 1.3, ...

Patients in the highest-exposure group, ie, those with more than 385 defined daily doses of PPIs, have an 83% higher risk for gastric neuroendocrine tumors than nonusers.

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) — used widely to reduce stomach acid and treat heartburn — have been linked to an increased risk for ischemic stroke in a new study. The Danish nationwide observational ...

Vitamin B12 from food needs stomach acid to be released from protein, and then absorbed in the intestine. When PPIs like ...

Meta-analysis results suggest prophylactic use in glioblastoma patients should be discoura ...

Over-the-counter antacids known as proton pump inhibitors, which treat heartburn symptoms by reducing stomach acid, may increase the risk of stroke, according to research presented at the American ...

One of the largest-ever studies on the topic of deprescribing medications shows the potential promise, and pitfalls, of a massive effort to reduce overuse of a common class of heartburn medications ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who suffer a heart attack nearly double the risk of having another if they are taking the widely used blood thinner Plavix together with a heartburn drug like Prilosec, ...

Researchers have found in an observational study that breast cancer patients using proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) alongside ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Proton pump inhibitors may be associated with pharmacovigilance signals for ...