| When good burps go bad
It's totally freaky, but if you always thought heartburn was just heartburn, you may be in for a surprise. Most of the time it is, but for some folks it's really gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a really annoying condition that can potentially lead to other scary illnesses like asthma, lung infection, inflammation of the esophagus and even cancer. GERD is caused by the reflux of stomach contents back into the esophagus, and when those are high in acid it becomes a more serious problem. Once you get GERD, many say, it usually becomes a lifelong problem, meaning you will need treatment for the rest of your life. Is that so? .
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Cabinet, jaundiced in body and in view?
KATHMANDU: A jaundiced outlook could be behind Nepal's troubles, say the country's columnists, literally.
Currently, five ministers in Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's cabinet are down with jaundice, hepatitis and other illnesses.
Deputy Prime Minister K P Oli, who has toured an enviable number of foreign countries in his capacity as foreign minister since May, is now confined to a hospital bed at Kathmandu's Maharajgunj Teaching Hospital, where he has been diagnosed with hepatitis.
Four of his cabinet colleagues are also on sick bed.
Commerce, Industry and Supplies Minister Hridayesh Tripathi, who hit the headlines last week with his resignation to protest against the government's ignoring of the demands of protesters in the Terai plains for an autonomous state, did it from his sick bed.
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