[Dave Burns]

Two Australians won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for a discovery that defied decades of medical dogma and revolutionized the treatment of ulcers. They showed that bacterial infection — not stress — causes ulcers in the stomach and intestine.

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The 1982 discovery by Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren eventually 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, said the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

[since1868]

Barry Marshall is a pioneer he risked his life to prove the real cause of ulsers.

[Dave Burns]

This man was laughed at by the elites

The eldest son of a welder and a nurse, Marshall grew up in a remote area of Western Australia where self sufficiency and common sense counted for more than bookish theories. He applied that same cando spirit to his work. When he needed a centrifuge to separate red blood cells for an experiment he substituted his kitchen ceiling fan, tying test tubes to the rotating blades.
When Marshall finally presented his and Warren's findings before an international conference of microbiologists in Brussels in September 1983, he was greeted with some skepticism. Unschooled at such presentations and filled with boyish eagerness, he refused to respond to questions in the measured, cautious manner of most researchers. Asked whether he though the bacteria were responsible for some ulcer disease, Marshall replied, No, I think they're responsible for all ulcer disease."
http://www.metamath.com/math124/statis/Marhelio.htm

[AndyJackson]

This is not the title of the original article. The "elites" were not wrong. Someone who does scientific research and proves a new theory and wins the Nobel Prize for it is a member of the so-called "elite," even if they are Auzzies.

[starfish923]

Is it possible that everyone might have some of these "bugs" in stocach and stress helps bring forth their disabling effects?
Stress DOES affect the immune system in a very negative way.

I am GLAD to see ulcers treated with anti-biotics.
I just wonder if it's the panacea it looks to be, or will those same ulcers return again and again with new stress?

[ScreamingFist]

Treat the cause, not the symptom. Unfortunately for the huge pharmaceutical companies Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren are modern day Alexander Fleming's........

[Strategerist]

The thing that people to lose sight of is that 99.99% of all the isolated mavericks challenging established wisdom in science turn out to be horribly wrong.

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[drypowder]

defied decades of medical dogma and revolutionized the treatment of ulcers

Hogwash! The fact that H. Pilori bacteria causes stomach ulcers goes back to the 1940s when a veterinarian (sorry, I don't recall his name) made the discovery of the foreign bacteria when a pig farmer was on the verge of going broke because much of his herd had stomach ulcers. Ulcers in swine have since been treated with antibiotics. This is well known in livestock journals so it's funny how this info never got transposed as a possible cause for human ulcers.