Pearls of Wisdom
Doug Winfrey and Dr. Wallach discuss a news article concerning a link between heartburn drugs and infections. A metanalysis of 16 previous studies of heartburn drugs of nearly 8000 people. Those who took these heartburn drugs had a 50% increased risk of having recurrent Clostridium difficile infections. Recent studies have also been seeing increases in C. difficile infections in younger healthy people.
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