by Khatcher O. Margossian and Murugappan Muthukumar, The Conversation pZC is designed to stay enveloped around its drug cargo in highly acidic environments, as in the stomach, and disassemble in less acidic environments, as in the small intestine. Credit: Khatcher Margossian, CC BY For patients and physicians, taking medications orally is often the most desirable way to...
(HealthDay)—Stomach acid suppression medications increase the odds of intestinal colonization with multidrug-resistant microorganisms (MDROs), according to a review and meta-analysis recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Roel P.J. Willems, M.D., from the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, and colleagues analyzed data from 26 observational studies to examine the association between the use of gastric acid suppressants...
