MONDAY, Jan. 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- A type of heartburn medication called proton pump inhibitors may be linked to long-term kidney damage, a new study suggests. Prilosec, Nexium and Prevacid belong to this class of drugs, which treat heartburn and acid reflux by lowering the amount of acid produced by the stomach.
Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County in Northeastern Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley and hosts a federal court building. With a population of 76,089, it is the largest city in the ScrantonâWilkes-BarreâHazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of about 570,000.
West Chester Area School District is located in Chester County in south-eastern Pennsylvania. The seat of county government is West Chester. Chester County was home to an estimated 516,312 residents between 2010 and 2016, according to the United States Census Bureau.