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...young, healthy people, many of whom have not been hospitalized at all. People already taking some kind of antibiotics appear to be especially susceptible-no surprise since the use of such germ killers can, paradoxically, help drug-resistant strains emerge. But disease trackers are alarmed to discover that common heartburn medications can also dramatically boost your risk of contracting C. diff. Whatever the co-factors in the pathogen's rise, health officials are fighting to control it-fast...
...Anti-heartburn drugs may only make things worse, with one study suggesting that people taking the type of medications marketed as Prilosec and Prevacid are almost three times as likely to suffer a C. diff attack as non-users, and those taking the type marketed as Pepcid or Zantac may be twice as likely. It seems that bacteria don't like stomach acid any better than consumers do, and when you suppress it chemically the bugs have a better chance of surviving...
...Eleven’s nachos with “free chili, and free cheese”—it’s not worth it, I’ll spare you the details.)Yet crazy living seems to be what college is all about. Despite the heartburn from unhealthy midnight snacks and the hassles of shutting out the day’s most intense sunlight so we can sleep until 2 p.m., we are reluctant to change our behavior. “College time” is such a potent force that it makes the transition between the East...
...their midst. "Once upon a time drug companies promoted drugs to treat diseases," Angell writes. "Now it is often the opposite. They promote diseases to fit the drugs." To create new markets, she argues, big pharma has been complicit in pathologizing a host of minor complaints. A spot of heartburn used to be a nuisance most of us put up without a thought of reporting it to our doctor. Now, writes Angell, it's called "gastroesophageal reflux disease ... and marketed, along with the drugs to treat it, as a harbinger of serious esophageal disease - which it usually...
...wasn't my intention for him to do it as a film," recalls Nora Ephron, 44. "I just wanted him to read it." But Director Mike Nichols, 53, thought Heartburn, Ephron's best-selling novel that resembles the breakup of her marriage to Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein, 41, would make a good movie, and the rest, as they say, is history, or maybe her-story. Now filming in New York City, Heartburn stars Meryl Streep, 35, as the jilted cookbook writer, and Jack Nicholson, 48, as the man who gives her marital indigestion. Nicholson is replacing Mandy Patinkin...