Ulcer Discovery Earns 2 Nobel

Press Telegram › October 04, 2005

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden Australians Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for showing that bacterial infection, not stress, was to blame for painful ulcers in the stomach and intestine.

The 1982 discovery transformed peptic ulcer disease from a chronic, frequently disabling condition to one that can be cured by a short regimen of antibiotics and other medicines, the Nobel Prize committee said.

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Ulcer Discovery Earns 2 Nobel

Thanks to their work, it has now been established that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which the new Nob...

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