Nonerosive reflux disease (NERD) has recently received a great deal of academic and clinical attention. NERD accounts for up to 70% of community-based gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Esophageal-directed hypnotherapy was well tolerated and improved symptoms and quality of life in patients with ...

Health psychologists have begun treating gastrointestinal disorders that are strongly affected by stress, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s disease, functional heartburn, functional ...

John Keohane, MB, MRCPI, Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, Department of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland ...

Patients with functional heartburn display similar symptoms seen in GERD and most often complain of a burning retrosternal discomfort. Once the underlying cause of a patient’s refractory heartburn is ...

The characteristics of functional heartburn remain poorly understood. Savarino et al. have now demonstrated that functional heartburn has more in common with functional dyspepsia than with nonerosive ...

(Reuters Health) - Heartburn sufferers who don’t feel better with standard treatment, but who have no detectable reflux, tend to have greater distress and worse quality of life, according to a new ...

heartburn pain Imipramine, a tricycle antidepressant, has no superiority over placebo in achieving satisfactory relief of reflux symptoms in esophageal hypersensitivity patients. Imipramine, a ...

A decision-support model for managing patients with heartburn in whom proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy fails suggests that endoscopy with ambulatory reflux monitoring is the optimal cost-effective ...

Sneaky—and often overlooked—causes of heartburn. The menthol in peppermint can cause heartburn. Getty Images Aug. 16, 2013— -- intro: Heartburn is as American as apple pie—more than 60 million ...