MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) -- A popular over-the-counter heartburn remedy is showing some potential as a symptom reliever for COVID-19, a small study finds. Famotidine, sold under the brand name Pepcid, ...

At one point at the beginning of the pandemic, there was hope that a popular and inexpensive over-the-counter heartburn drug might hold promise for treating Covid-19, but a newly published study shows ...

Patients who took a common heartburn medicine while hospitalized for Covid-19 were more than twice as likely to survive the infection, according to a paper posted Friday on a pre-publication website.

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A drug that many Americans are used to taking to ease heartburn is being investigated as a potential ...

More data from observational studies, this time in hospitalized patients, indicated that famotidine (Pepcid AC), which is used to treat heartburn, was associated with improved clinical outcomes in ...

For a small group of nonhospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), self-administration of high-dose oral famotidine was found to be associated with improvements in disease-related ...

Famotidine, the active ingredient in Pepcid AC and other heartburn medicines, is being studied as a coronavirus treatment. There's no word yet that it could be useful at all, but that isn't stopping ...

Description The goal of the trial was to evaluate treatment with famotidine compared with placebo among patients taking low-dose aspirin. Hypothesis Famotidine would be more effective in preventing ...