Subjects who had recently taken antibiotics or ulcer medication, including antacids, were excluded.
He cites studies showing that 30 percent of ulcer medications - a major drug expense for many employers - are "inappropriately prescribed and used."
And what you don't spend on ulcer medication and psychiatrists will more man make up for a pay difference.
The results were helped by an 11 percent increase in sales of Nexium, an ulcer medication, and by cost cuts.
Helidac, an ulcer medication introduced a year ago, has already become a big seller because it does not have the side effects of some competing drugs.
We can do any given thing, but we can't do everything, which is why over-the-counter ulcer medications seem to sell so well.
Because neither job offers health insurance, she says she can no longer afford her ulcer medication.
He had suffered from stomach ulcers since he was a child, and had used every conventional ulcer medication available, with little result.
She had induced abortion by ingesting misoprostol, an ulcer medication with abortifacient potential.
That is because it takes several days to feel an ulcer medication's effect and, so, anything offered as an over-the-counter ulcer treatment might be overused.