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...HEARTBURN HEAVEN These days there are more ways to treat heartburn than to get it. Two widely prescribed anti-ulcer drugs--Pepcid and Tagamet--were approved by the fda as over-the-counter remedies. A third drug, called Zantac, will become available...
...admiring employees and conducts his small, prospering business with ruthless efficiency. Aside from a persistent, insoluble public relations problem--certain elements in the community despise him--he is a model of the entrepreneurial spirit that we like to believe made America great, and at 19 he has the ulcer to prove it. Strike is a crack dealer monopolizing the trade in a Brooklyn, New York, housing project...
...latest major drug to be considered for the switch is Zantac, an anti-ulcer medication manufactured by Glaxo. Just two weeks ago, two advisory panels to the FDA gave preliminary approval for it to be sold over the counter as a heartburn remedy. Final approval from the fda, which normally concurs with its advisers' recommendations, could set the stage for a marketing war next year among three pharmaceutical giants for dominance of the $1 billion market for heartburn drugs...
...race to corner the heartburn market, Merck's Pepcid and SmithKline Beecham's Tagamet have the early lead. Both drugs boasted stellar records as anti-ulcer drugs in the prescription market and gained final U.S. approval for over-the-counter sales in April and June, respectively. Despite Zantac's late start, its popularity may enable it to overtake its rivals. Currently, it is the world's best-selling prescription drug. Analysts expect the three manufacturers together to spend some $300 million to tout their products...
Aaron's journal, as well as diaries kept by other campers and an inquiry conducted by Garfield County deputy sheriff Celeste Bernards, tells a more harrowing story. Early in the trip he developed intense stomach pain, which an autopsy later revealed was caused by an ulcer, according to testimony by Utah chief medical examiner Todd Grey at last month's pretrial hearing. In a civil suit, Aaron's parents claim that some counselors taunted him for slowing down the group. As punishment, the suit continues, North Star took away Aaron's sleeping bag, leaving him with only a blanket...