April 18, 2012 7:06 am

Magnets offer New Solution to Heartburn

People who suffer from chronic heartburn now have a new solution – magnets. Doctors at UC San Diego placed a string of magnets in a patient’s esophagus in order to keep acid out of the stomach, the first surgery of its kind since the FDA approved this treatment in March.

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