Thirty years ago, disorders associated with inappropriate levels of gastric acid were a major
problem for which treatment options were limited, and approaches to the control of gastric …

61 literature when available. When data were unavailable to support establishing a
performance target level,“N/A”(not available) was listed. However, when expert consensus …

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's
and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a …

This essay argues that philosophical phenomenology can provide important insights into the
patient-physician relationship. In particular, it is noted that the physician and patient …

The exclusion of nonmaterial human phenomena mandated by medical science's continuing
allegiance to a 17th century scientific world view has constituted a major obstacle to …

We have studied the response of erosive or ulcerative esophagitis to treatment with
omeprazole and its subsequent relapse on cessation of therapy in 196 patients. In the first …

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are drugs which irreversibly inhibit proton pump (H+/K+
ATPase) function and are the most potent gastric acid-suppressing agents in clinical use …

A great gulf exists between the way we think about disease as physicians and the way we
experience it as people. Much of this separation derives directly from our basic assumptions …

Omeprazole blocks the action of H+, K+ ATPase in the gastric mucosa and thus inhibits the
secretion of hydrochloric acid. We conducted a double-blind multicenter study (45 centers in …

Omeprazole treatment diminishes intra- and extracellular neu... : Critical Care Medicine
Omeprazole treatment diminishes intra- and extracellular neutrophil reactive oxygen …