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Robin Warren Has Died
He and Barry Marshall won a Nobel prize for their work on the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori
Robin Warren, who has died aged 87, was an Australian pathologist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his colleague Barry Marshall for their discovery of a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, and identifying it as a major cause of stomach inflammations and ulcers. For decades – centuries even – doctors believed that stomach ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods or too much acid, so treated them with antacids and dietary changes. To prove the point, in 1985 Marshall drank a Petri dish of bacterial broth to show that the presence of H pylori in people with ulcers was no coincidence.
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