What do Gaviscon products treat? Gaviscon products are used to help ease symptoms caused by heartburn, acid indigestion, or sour or upset stomach. Gaviscon products contain antacids, including ...

A product that many Aussies rely on daily has been hit with a global shortage due to one very specific – and peculiar – reason. If you suffer from heartburn or indigestion then you know how important ...

The GOOD trial was a 14-day multicentre randomised double-blind double-dummy non-inferiority trial comparing efficacy between Gaviscon® and omeprazole 20 mg. It recruited 90 general practitioners (GPs ...

Household products giant Reckitt Benckiser has been accused by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) of rigging the market for heartburn drug Gaviscon. It claims the firm sought to restrict competition in ...

Reckitt Benckiser, the household goods giant, is being sued for £90m by health secretary Andrew Lansley for devising a secret plan to extract more cash from the National Health Service. The claim, ...

Many of us reach for over-the-counter remedies, but a pharmacist has issued an urgent warning about some widely-used treatments. While indigestion and heartburn affect most of us from time to time, ...

The makers of Gaviscon maintained an effective monopoly on the market for years after the stomach medicine came off patent, Newsnight has been told. Internal documents show Reckitt Benckiser ...

Award-winning senior researcher/writer with 25 years' experience writing about wellbeing, covering everything from indigestion remedies to insect repellents. Heartburn doesn’t just strike after ...

Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Reckitt Benckiser will “vigorously defend” itself against an £89m lawsuit by the NHS that claims the ...

So-called shrinkflation is piling pressure on household grocery budgets, with coffee, toothpaste and even Gaviscon dwindling in product size, Which? has found. The consumer group asked shoppers to ...

Background Medical management of GERD mainly uses proton pump inhibitors. Alginates also have proven efficacy. The aim of this trial was to compare short-term efficacy of an alginate (Gaviscon®, 4 × ...