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...been nearly 25 years since Drs. Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren showed that the vast majority of peptic ulcers are caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori, a discovery that was honored last week with a Nobel Prize. Yet I'm always surprised by how many ulcer sufferers don't realize that their stomach pains can be easily and effectively cured with antibiotics...
...decline. Young people feel that government is too bureaucratic and not responsive; they don’t believe politicians speak to their generation; they dislike the negativity and divisiveness that is pervasive in so much of modern political discourse. As Ganesh N. Sitaraman ’04 and Previn Warren ’04 described in their book, “Invisible Citizens,” “Our generation has not experienced government as it can, should and does exist. We face instead a version of politics that is bureaucratic, disengaged, and distasteful...
...annoying, but I kept on with my work, because I knew I was right," said Warren in a telephone conversation with the Nobel organization Monday...
...found someone who would listen in Marshall, a brash young gastroenterology resident born in the bush to a boilermaker and a nurse. Marshall, who reportedly wrote his first scientific paper on a homemade word processor, was looking for a research project to complete his training and found Warren's bacteria intriguing...
...Warren and Marshall spent months trying to culture the bug (later named Helicobacter pylori). Once successful, they tried in vain to get the medical establishment to test their theory that H. pylori caused ulcers. Failing that, Marshall, the more daring salesman of the two, tested it on himself in 1984, swallowing the vile brew and infecting himself with an agonizing case of gastritis. He then treated himself with antibiotics and embarked on a campaign to rewrite the medical textbooks. He succeeded. Read any medical textbook today, and you?ll see that H. pylori is acknowledged as the cause...