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Robin Warren, pathologist who rewrote the science on ulcers, has died
The long-held medical view was that stress caused ulcers. Dr. Warren and fellow Australian Barry Marshall, who shared a Nobel Prize, showed it was a bacteria.
Robin Warren, an Australian pathologist who shared a Nobel Prize for rewriting medical views on gut health with research that included his partner drinking a bacteria-laced brew to show how microbes can cause ulcers, died July 23 in Perth, Australia. The discoveries by Dr. Warren and Barry Marshall at Royal Perth Hospital completely upended long-standing medical assumptions that the stomach’s gastric fluids would kill any invasive bacteria. In wider medical research, the work by Dr. Warren and Marshall also introduced theories about possible bacterial factors in ailments caused by inflammation, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and as potential triggers for cancers.
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