Word: pepticity
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...original study of 53,000 Harvard and University of Pennsylvania graduates began in 1960. The study has demonstrated the link between high blood pressure and heart disease, and also the worrisome finding that coffee and cigarettes consumed by students today equals peptic ulcers tomorrow...
...case histories prove nothing, and organized studies are few and far between. Spinal manipulation has been shown to alter the heartbeat and the acidity of the stomach, says Peter Curtis, a medical professor at the University of North Carolina, who studied the technique, "but whether you can cure a peptic ulcer or angina is another question entirely." The A.M.A. withdrew its earlier condemnation of chiropractic as a cult in 1988 -- after federal courts ruled it an unfair restraint of trade -- but it remains adamantly opposed to broad application of chiropractic therapy...
...discovered a group of histamine receptors, a finding that led to the development of the drug cimetidine. The drug introduced "a new principle in the treatment of peptic ulcer," said the institute's announcement...
...astounding 13 each rang up more than $100 million in 1987 sales, well ahead of Britain's Glaxo Holdings, which has five products in that rarefied range. Among Merck's best sellers are Vasotec, a blood pressure-lowering drug; the antibiotics Primaxin and Noroxin; Pepcid, used to treat peptic ulcers; the anti-inflammatories Clinoril and Indocin; an antiglaucoma agent named Timoptic; and the hepatitis fighter Recombivax HB, the first genetically engineered vaccine licensed for human...
...many in the U.S., where 10 billion aspirin are consumed each year, there are also potentially serious side effects. These complications, including gastrointestinal distress, rectal bleeding and peptic ulcers, have caused researchers to temper their excitement over the implications of the American study and warn individuals not to take aspirin frequently except under a doctor's care. Says William Kannel, chief of preventive medicine at Boston University and a former director of the Framingham Study, a long-term heart-research program: "The most rational use would be in high-risk people, rather than having everyone gobble aspirin." Claude Lenfant, director...