Nobel for gastric ulcer discovery
This was a pretty big deal because until 1982 absolutely everyone swore by the "fact" that ulcers were caused by stress. How many millions of people were wrongly treated?
"Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Medicine prize for discovering a bacterium that causes gastritis and stomach ulcers, said the Nobel Assembly of Stockholm's Karolinska Institute on Monday.
"They made the 'remarkable and unexpected discovery' in 1982 that the stomach inflammation known as gastritis and ulceration of the stomach and duodenum known as peptic ulcer disease are caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the Assembly said."
Reuters
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"Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Medicine prize for discovering a bacterium that causes gastritis and stomach ulcers, said the Nobel Assembly of Stockholm's Karolinska Institute on Monday.
"They made the 'remarkable and unexpected discovery' in 1982 that the stomach inflammation known as gastritis and ulceration of the stomach and duodenum known as peptic ulcer disease are caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the Assembly said."
Reuters
Tagged: australia, medicine, nobel, health
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