Word: stomach
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...OPERATING TABLE IN A small white room, a naked humanoid creature lies supine and inert--its stomach bulbous; its six fingers slightly curled; a deep, foot-long gash in its right leg. Two humans in white contamination suits circle the creature, slicing its chest, sawing its skull in half, removing internal organs. A third takes notes on a sheet of paper. Behind a window, a fourth person watches, hidden by a surgical mask. The only identifiable figure is the humanoid. Its face shows strain, perhaps pain. When the camera recording the event catches the creature's sightless gaze, an eerie...
LOVED YOUR COVER: A PICTURE OF THE stomach-churning Buchanan beneath a presumably unrelated headline, heartburn wars. I should say! THOMAS WALTON Bowling Green, Ohio...
...beginning in the late 1970s, pharmaceutical companies started offering such new drugs as Zantac, Tagamet, Pepcid and Axid, available only by prescription for those with serious heartburn or ulcers. While these brands took as long as an hour to kick in, they actually blocked the production of stomach acids and could protect against heartburn for as long as 12 hours. Despite their prescription-only status, these drugs quickly won favor, and today account for $3.7 billion annually in U.S. sales...
...FEELING ALL TOO FAMILIAR TO MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, AN UNCOMfortable, burning sensation that begins in the chest and neck after a meal. The burning is real, caused by acid being regurgitated into the esophagus from the stomach. It occurs when a muscular valve, which should be tightly closed except when food is swallowed, relaxes or operates inefficiently, allowing stomach contents to back up. In other parts of the world, most people accept it as a fact of life--and tough it out. In the U.S., says Dr. John Walsh, former president of the American Gastroenterological Association (A.G.A.), "only a fraction...
What separates the new over-the-counter medications from the old solutions? Antacids, which consist largely of chemical compounds called bases, neutralize the wayward acid, but as acid continues to migrate upward from the stomach, heartburn can return in only a few hours. Acid blockers like Pepcid and Tagamet, on the other hand, go to the root of the problem by suppressing the production of acid in cells lining the interior of the stomach without interfering with normal digestion. These cells normally produce acid when a form of histamine called H2 "docks" with receptors in the cell walls, much like...