If you get heartburn more than twice a week, you ought to embrace the basic tenets of a healthy lifestyle. Not only will they keep you in fighting shape, they'll solve that indigestion problem too. Heartburn, sometimes a sign of gastroesophageal ...

My allergist recently put me on a heartburn medication to see if it helps my asthma stay in control. GERD and asthma are connected, though health experts aren't exactly sure what that connection is. I'm hopeful that it works, because asthma affects ...

Sometimes heartburn -- or as my Italian grandmother calls it, agida -- is just that. It's uncomfortable, it's annoying, and it's no fun whatsoever. It's also not cause for any great concern. Most of the time, anyway. For women who are getting up ...

In a recent poll, 8 out of 10 people suffering from heartburn stated that they're kept up at night at least once a week by their symptoms. This is a problem not only because of the obvious sleep deprivation, but also because when you're lying down ...

Carbs, carbs, carbs -- yeah, we know all about carbs. There's so-called "good" ones and there are definitely "bad"ones. There are times when we need them, and there are times when we should probably steer clear of them altogether. Readers of this ...

Until my third trimester of pregnancy, I'd never experienced heartburn, a condition created by stomach acid in the esophagus. In fact, until I fell prey to it and began researching the issue, I formerly believed heartburn was merely the result of ...

More kids are obese these days than before, and now -- according to a recent drug analysis -- ore kids are taking heartburn drugs than ever before. Yikes -- this is another sign of how the quality of food many kids are eating has deteriorated in the ...

Obese caucasians are at higher risk for developing acid reflux disease than obese individuals of other races. In a group of 80,000 patients obesity was found to increase risk by a fairly significant amount for Caucasians, while it seemed to have ...