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World Trade Center Workers Have More Cases of Acid Reflux

World Trade Center rescue workers can add another illness to the list of health problems that may have resulted from exposure to Ground Zero toxins and the ensuing mental anguish of the tragedy — gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). A new study shows that 41 percent of World Trade Center responders have GERD, twice that of [...]

Acid Reflux – Home Remedies vs Prescriptions vs Surgery – Which Is Best?

A changed lifestyle can be a natural cure for the pains and discomforts that go along with acid reflux. Avoiding foods that irritate the symptoms is the perfect beginning towards an acid reflux cure. The very next step can be other lifestyle changes like giving up smoking and beer and alcohol, avoiding coffee and eating [...]