Ulcers and h pylori - Q:I recently read an article on stomach ulcers. It stated that recent research has unearthed the presence of a bug called helicobacter pylori (H pylo...

Wash your hands: - The doctor won't, so you'd better - Possibly the single greatest advance of modern medicine was a discovery made around 1850. Doctors were spreading disease because they weren't washing...

Mrsa: now wash your hands - It s been said that the greatest medical breakthrough was to get doctors to wash their hands an observation that was made around 140 years ago Sadl...

A spoonful of honey for h pylori - Having suffered from stomach lining inflammations and duodenal ulcers for over 30 years, it was a relief to discover three years ago that the underlyi...

H. pylori - You can catch it from people, too - Researchers have found that Helicobacter pylori can be caught from someone who has gastroenteritis and not just from infected food.

Ulcer drug linked to stomach bug - People taking the ulcer drug omeprazole face a 10 fold increased risk of developing gastroenteritis caused by the bug campylobacter, now a more common...

Doctors detect h. pylori bug with breath test - Doctors can easily detect Helicobacter pylori, the bug responsible for most ulcers, with a simple breath test without resorting to endoscopy which, fo...

Now don't wash your hands - Re Treatment of the Month and doctors not washing their hands (WDDTY vol 10, no 7), it reminded me of a friend who attended an extremely expensive fer...