The FDA is urging consumers to consider avoiding antacids that contain aspirin, like Alka-Seltzer, particularly if they are vulnerable to stomach ulcers or gastrointestinal bleeding.
New research finds that heartburn drugs are effective in preventing gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients, but also appear to increase the risk of pneumonia.
A Connecticut jury has ordered the makers of Pradaxa to pay more than half a million dollars to a New York man who suffered a life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding event.
Boehringer-Ingelheim has been ordered to pay $1.25 million to the family of a woman who died of Pradaxa gastrointestinal bleeding side effects.
