| Acid reflux and GERD: Are they the same thing?
Acid reflux is one cause of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a disease in which stomach acid or, occasionally, bile flows back (refluxes) into your food pipe (esophagus). Because GERD may also be caused by bile reflux, the term "acid reflux disease" is more specific in describing the cause. But it doesn't describe the body part affected by the acid reflux. Most doctors prefer "GERD" because it's a more comprehensive term. Drug companies that market and sell acid-suppressing medications, however, often prefer to use "acid reflux disease." .
Katie Couric's Case of the Blues
CBS news anchor Katie Couric, invited to a briefing at the White House, complained about being the only journalist in attendance "wearing a skirt." Her colleagues included ABC's Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos; NBC's Brian Williams and Tim Russert; CBS's Bob Schieffer; CNN's Wolf Blitzer; and FOX's Brit Hume. .
Rugby: the game long on commitment but short in careers
In the dog days of the sporting season, when sub-editors blow on fingers staved by the shutting of the transfer window and writers brush off their rugby cliches for a Six Nations runout, there is an affecting ritual in The Herald Sports Suite. We use this as our bonding time, though those Back4 boys can sometimes take this too literally. Rebuffed by increasingly irritated sub-editors, they find solace in doing interesting things with soft furnishings and being ambitious with spot lighting, all to lend "a happening ambience to the workplace". It's like Arden with Colin and Justin, without the sophistication. Meanwhile, the writers toast their waffles (strangely, our writers do a lot of waffling) while the sports editor demands that the under-used editors tabulate the Bosnian Third Division West while translating it into Sanskrit and forming logarithmic formulae for points accrued.
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