By Dr. Donna Powell & Dr. Renee M. Marchioni Beery at Gastro MD The esophagus, commonly referred to as the “food pipe,” is the tube that carries the food you swallow from your mouth to your stomach....

While a disease is considered rare if it affects less than 200,000 people in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), having one of these diseases is not rare at all. One...