Prescription drugs such as antidepressants (SSRIs) and contraceptive pills containing a synthetic progestin called ...

A number of videos have surfaced recently on social media with women claiming that common medications used to treat allergies and heartburn have ...

Vogt produce histamine synthetically by removing the ... 1972—James Black discovers the H2 receptor and characterizes its antagonist, burimamide. 1999—Researchers at a subsidiary of Johnson ...

You’re not imagining things -- pollen has choked most of the U.S. in an unusually intense spring allergy season this year ...

Medically reviewed by Patricia Mikula, PharmD If you experience severe premenstrual symptoms, a potential solution may already be in your medicine cabinet. Social media users claim that heartburn ...

A paper published today (November 24) in Cancer Cell reports that high levels of histamine—best known for being released in response to allergens—and one of its receptors are associated with tumor ...

Millions of people take medications known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to relieve heartburn, acid reflux, and related ...

Famotidine is a competitive inhibitor of histamine-2 (H2) receptors. The primary clinically important pharmacologic activity of famotidine is inhibition of gastric secretion. Both the acid ...