Mylanta

Mylanta Night Time Strength: first time a court adopted the FTC principle, for Lanham Act purposes, that lack of substantiation is equivalent to falsity.

Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Ideally, you get consistency: people play back a claim in the open ended questions and again in the close ended questions (comment: the Mylanta Night Time Strength case was like that).

Arnold & Porter Webinar on False Advertising Rebecca Tushnet 2009

For example, aluminum antacids (Maalox, Mylanta and Gaviscon) and calcium carbonate (Caltrate, Dicarbosil, Rolaids, Titralac and Tums) act by buffering or neutralizing the acid pH of the stomach.

Hyla Cass, M.D.: Is Your Medication Robbing You of Nutrients Part 2: Getting Specific M.D. Hyla Cass 2010

The Lancaster plant, owned by a J&J and Merck joint venture, makes heartburn medicines Pepcid and Mylanta; Merck is not subject to the decree.

FDA Set to Oversee J&J Plants Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011

Ideally, you get consistency: people play back a claim in the open ended questions and again in the close ended questions (comment: the Mylanta Night Time Strength case was like that).

Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Among the products made there are heartburn medicines Pepcid and Mylanta.

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Mylanta, vodka, gouache, pva and crushed sleeping pills on museum board, 23 x 16.5 inches

Kimberly Brooks: Electric Kool-Aid Art Test: Mike Quinn 2010

The facility failed to check the quality of some Mylanta products after various equipment failed during manufacturing of the antacid, the report said.

FDA Report Details JNJ's Quality Issues 2010

Federal officials who inspected a Johnson & Johnson manufacturing plant that makes Mylanta, Pepcid and other popular heartburn medicines unearthed quality control problems, chaotic recordkeeping and complaints by consumers that medicines were either ineffective or contained pills from different products in the same retail package.

FDA reports problems at Johnson & Johnson plant in Pennsylvania 2010

If you have occasional heartburn and have not been diagnosed with GERD, your first and best bet is to try an inexpensive over-the-counter antacid like Maalox, Mylanta, Rolaids, Tums, or another type of drug like Pepcid AC or Zantac 150 (known as H2 blockers).

Deal over heartburn drug is enough to give you, well, heartburn 2010