Ask a Scientist: Barry Marshall on discovering that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- “You have to be evidence-based. That’s where the new discoveries come from.” People thought that stress or alcohol led to ulcers, but Lasker Laureate Barry Marshall collected evidence to show the true cause.
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It’s a shame this saga has not received more media coverage.
The behaviour of the medical community to have a greater interest in preserving their big pharma sponsors profits, as sales of expensive PPIs and antaacids with a great profit margin.
In fact the bacterial cause was identified years earlier in the 60s by a Greek doctor who was fined for daring to cure patients and thus depriving pharma of those profits.
Other researches find their grants get cut, but to prevent them finding another sponsor for curative research such scientists get redirected to put their time and effort into other sponsored research that is less harmful to pharma profits and med community junkets.
Interesting point!
I would like to thank Barry Marshall because I suffered stomach problems for years with doctors telling me it was due to fried food, spicy food, stress and any other idea they could come up with. In the 1980's I moved house and changed doctors and I was lucky to have a doctor who had heard about this treatment. Within a few weeks all stomach problems had disappeared and I have never had suffered any stomach issues since. All thanks to Barry Marshall.
Hi, can you please tell me what type of treatment you get im suffering this from ten years. Go through many drs and medicine all says leave spice junk and take antibiotics but it doesn't work for long
@@testtubemedia6053 For my problem I believe I had a blood test to confirm I had the Helicobacter bug and then I was given a course of two antibiotics which cured the problem.
The Drug companies took it well.
What do you mean? Did they have any vested interest in it?
Dr Marshall, my father was one of the first to undergo the antibiotic treatment you discovered approximately 30 years ago, in Melbourne, Victoria. My father has recently become extremely ill, I feel it has become stomach cancer, however he has a partner and I am not privy to personal details. He is geriatric with dementia and there will be very little that can be done for obvious reasons. Is there any new treatments on the horizon? I appreciate your time. 😇
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Thank you Dr Marshall for doing what you could to advance medical science!