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Australians win Nobel Prize for medicine
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct 3, 2005 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Australians Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren have won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on gastric inflammation, it was announced Monday.
Warren, 68, discovered that certain bacteria were present at the location of gastric inflammation. Marshall, 54, was able to cultivate an unknown bacterial species, which has since been shown to be responsible for up to 80 percent of gastric ulcers.
Their work has led to advances in treatment of gastric diseases and also understanding of the connection between chronic infections, inflammation and cancer.
"Thanks to the pioneering discovery by Marshall and Warren, peptic ulcer disease is no longer a chronic, frequently disabling condition, but a disease that can be cured by a strict regimen of antibiotics and acid secretion inhibitors," the Nobel selection committee said in a release.
The pair will formally receive their award Dec. 10 in Stockholm, Sweden. The prize carries a cash award of about $1.3 million.
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