SCIENCE BRIEFING
Times Staff and Wire Reports
Asthma patients using powerful acid-reflux drugs even though they don’t have heartburn should stop taking them, lung experts say. The medicine doesn’t improve asthma symptoms, as had been thought.
A study published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine found that among 412 patients with poorly controlled asthma, the group given the proton pump inhibitor Nexium twice a day for six months fared no better in symptom control than patients getting placebos.
