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....

The “acid” in “acid reflux” may not be the direct cause of damage to the esophagus as previously suspected, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas VA Medical Center. For...