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Biotech / Medical : QDEL - Quidel more quick diagnosis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jerome T. Richards who wrote (1228)	10/29/1997 2:03:00 AM
From: Mike Relyea	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1693

Jerry, I especially liked the following excerpts from the Osgood File on THE TRUTH ABOUT ULCERS Error!: "And 13 thousand die from stomach CANCER. . . which ulcers can turn into. . . and is also strongly linked to Helicobacter. So its SERIOUS business we're talking about." Ulcers are just part of the unfolding H. pylori story in my opinion. The market for H. pylori testing and treatment is big just for those suffering from ulcers, but a much bigger market is sure to emerge when people begin to assimilate H. pylori with the dreaded CANCER. If the government can promote periodic screening for prostrate, breast, and cervical cancers, then it sure should promote testing for H. pylori. I've heard about a number of major ongoing studies to determine if H. pylori's a major risk factor in stomach cancer. Many studies have already been completed that indicate it is, and the Word Health Organization has classified H. pylori as a category 1 carcinogen, the same category as cigarettes. We'll be hearing much more about H. pylori, that we can bank on. Mike

To: Jerome T. Richards who wrote (1228)	10/29/1997 11:45:00 AM
From: Ambrym Man	Respond to of 1693

Thanks. You will notice that no one has argued with my figures. I posted the figures on Monday, and coincidently the Wall Street Journal had an article that day about the influenza outbreak in Hawaii and that it is time to to have a shot. The relevance to my post is that they mentioned the swine influenza where there was a nationwide campaign to get people to get innoculated. The year was 1976. Evidently some people became ill with a condition with a fancy name. The article went on to say that some people can still remember that, and are hesitent to have the shot. Evidently there is a risk group for influenza and of that group "58% of the population over 65 and 30% of the population under 65 get the shot." So my strawhorse number of 15% of the population that would seek an h-pylori test is probably way low. My 20% market share for Quidel is probably high. Remember it is thought that that 50% of the US population over 50 have h-pylori. I just caught the tail end of a CNN bit on it Monday night. I had just tuned to that channel and all I heard was "-and the ulcer is cured."