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New PPI Heals Erosive Esophagitis Better Than Older Formulation
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The results of a meta-analysis of two phase III studies, announced here during Digestive Disease Week 2008, show that the investigational proton pump inhibitor TAK-390mr (TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois) achieves better healing rates and maintains longer pH control than lansoprazole (Prevacid, TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.). Reuters Health Information
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Smaller Pancreatic Tumors Have Dramatically Better Prognosis
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Patients with pancreatic cancer diagnosed when the tumor is 20 mm or less have a dramatically better prognosis than those whose tumors are larger; unfortunately, few pancreatic tumors are found when they are still this small. Medscape Medical News
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Octreotide May Enhance Control of Portal Hypertension
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In patients with cirrhosis, the reduction in portal pressure induced by propranolol is apparently enhanced by the addition of octreotide, a long-acting synthetic somatostatin analogue. The finding is reported by researchers from Argentina in the October issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Reuters Health Information
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