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To: Ambrym Man who wrote (1205)	10/23/1997 4:54:00 PM
From: Ambrym Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1693

Better have those h-pylori test kits ready. CHRISTMAS IS EARLY. The government has got in the act. On Reuters,Thursday,October 23 3.42 PM EDT ULCERS CAUSED by INFECTION, NOT STRESS Part of the article: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health launched a national campaign to educate people about recent studies showing----" WHAT QUIDELERS ALREADY KNEW, Another part "I think we need to get up and shout at this point because there is good news," Dr.FRank Hamilton, chief of digestive diseases at the NIH, told a news briefing. Article goes into the costs of the illness and cures. "It's not only the government that would save, Sonneberg said. "The patient would experience less pain, less hospitalization and fewer work days lost to ulcer disease." "A simple blood test or breath test can detect helicobacter." He said agencies were also doing research to see if people with other gastric diseases--such as dyspepsia, or chronic indigestion---could be helped by antibiotics."