http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Patients who complain of upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms often face a diagnosis of either gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or functional dyspepsia. Because the two conditions often overlap, it can be difficult to distinguish between them and diagnose them properly. Yet ambulatory care facilities and hospitals have reported a dramatic increase in the number of GERD-related visits/discharges in recent years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-physicians-bias-stomach-problems.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:34:46 EST news239276078 Medicine could very soon have a new ally in the fight against cancer: Terbium-161. Its most important weapon: Conversion and Auger electrons. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have developed a new treatment method based on terbium-161 to treat smaller tumors and metastases in a more targeted way. The nuclide was produced at the TUM's research neutron source. In cooperation with the Paul Scherrer Institute it has been tested on cancer cells successfully. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-radionuclide-treatment-small-tumors-metastases.html Cancer Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:03:16 EST news227440975