Friday, February 10, 2012

Protonix, Prevacid, Nexium linked to spread of deadly bacteria C. difficile

(Maclean's) UPDATED 2006-08-09
A potentially deadly bacteria, C. difficile (Clostridium difficile), has been showing up outside of hospitals, and doctors at the Centers for Disease Control had previously only been thought to infect people taking antibiotics, drugs that destroy "good" bacteria in the intestines and allow C. difficile to thrive. These fears follow a study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in which researchers found that people
using certain acid-reflux drugs faced a greater risk of C. diff-related
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