Australians win Nobel Medicine prize

Updated: 17:32, Monday, 3 October 2005

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to two Australian scientists for their discovery that stomach ulcers can be caused by a bacterial infection.

Robin Warren and Barry Marshall showed that a particular bacterium plays a key role in the development of both stomach and intestinal ulcers.

As a result of their research, these ulcers are often no longer a long-term, frequently disabling problem and can be cured with a short-term course of drugs and antibiotics.

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