Nobel Prize Awarded for Stomach Ulcer Discovery

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 3, 2005 @11:57PM from the results-of-a-gut-feeling dept.

gollum123 writes to tell us the BBC is reporting that the Nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to two Australian scientists for their work with ulcers. Their research has shown that the majority of ulcers are caused by bacteria and can be cured with a short-term course of drugs and antibiotics. From the article: "Dr Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastic inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium. The Nobel citation praises the doctors for their tenacity, and willingness to challenge prevailing dogmas."

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Re:1982! by burnetd · 2005-10-04 01:22 · Score: 0, Troll

It didn't help that big Pharma were shouting..

'It's not true, it's not true, you need our expensive patented anti-ulcer drugs' ...until the patents ran out, then revealed they were working on H Pylori targetting anti-biotics.