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Which is why I'm so enjoying the Bush Administration's recent heartburn over its new regulations on the emission of mercury, a nasty neurotoxin that in recent years has become the bane of pregnant women because of its accumulation in popular fish like tuna. As with lead, adults can process an impressive amount of mercury before major damage is done. Not so fetuses. In 2004 the Federal Government warned pregnant women against eating more than 6 oz. of albacore tuna a week. Unfortunately, that warning came a few months after the birth of my first child--which meant...
...definitely going to have the worst heartburn ever tomorrow,” Morocco said, as Rodger asked around for medication immediately following the competition...
Taking Nexium, Prevacid or Prilosec--the so-called proton-pump inhibitors widely prescribed for heartburn--can keep acid-reflux disease in check. But a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says they may put you at risk for pneumonia. Dutch researchers studied more than 360,000 patients and found that users of the powerful acid-fighting drugs were 89% more likely to develop pneumonia than people who no longer took them. Less potent acid reducers such as Pepcid and Tagamet also raised the risk of pneumonia, by 63%. Doctors say such drugs are so good at knocking...
...MEDICARE: Politicians fiddle, while doctors get heartburn...
...hopes to win, Kerry will have to do much more of that. He will have to become a version of the young John Kerry not celebrated at the Democratic Convention--the eloquent, passionate, uncoached leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War who caused the Nixon White House serious heartburn. Where did that fabulous young politician ever go, anyway...