Word: peptic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peptic ulcers can be cured, not just treated, with antibiotics, reports the National Institutes of Health. A special panel has concluded that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes ulcers and can be wiped out by a combination of drugs such as tetracycline, metronidazole and amoxicillin...
...original study of 53,000 Harvard and University of Pennsylvania graduates began in 1960. The study has demonstrated the link between high blood pressure and heart disease, and also the worrisome finding that coffee and cigarettes consumed by students today equals peptic ulcers tomorrow...
...case histories prove nothing, and organized studies are few and far between. Spinal manipulation has been shown to alter the heartbeat and the acidity of the stomach, says Peter Curtis, a medical professor at the University of North Carolina, who studied the technique, "but whether you can cure a peptic ulcer or angina is another question entirely." The A.M.A. withdrew its earlier condemnation of chiropractic as a cult in 1988 -- after federal courts ruled it an unfair restraint of trade -- but it remains adamantly opposed to broad application of chiropractic therapy...