We share our bodies with many other organisms, and one that many people are carrying, often without realizing it, is a bacteria called H. pylori or Helicobacter pylori. This parasite lives in the ...

Our bodies are replete with bacteria and other microorganisms that coexist without harming us, but we do occasionally suffer ...

WebMD explains how an H. pylori bacterial infection can raise your chances of stomach cancer. Find out more about symptoms, tests, and treatments for H. pylori.

H. pylori accounted for over 800,000 cancer cases in 2018, and about 30% to 40% of Americans get an H. pylori infection at ...

Blaser also found the same inverse relationship between H. pylori and asthma and skin rashes. Worms, too, can damp down humans' immune reactions—far enough that the parasites can live in the gut ...

Warren teamed up with Barry Marshall, who was still in training for internal medicine at the time, and they tried to grow H. pylori in the early 1980s — at first, to no avail.They were using the ...

Treatment of H. pylori involves a course of antibiotics and acid blockers, which is over 90% effective. According to Dr. Michael Greger’s nutritionfacts.org, a more natural way of getting rid of H.

The researchers learned that some of the H. Pylori bugs can become founders that set up camp inside gastric glands, where they reproduce and establish a colony. Then these bacteria can migrate to ...

Knowing this—and the fact that H. pylori does best at a neutral pH—Jonathan P. Celli of Boston University and his colleagues reasoned that the bacterium’s ability to alter the stomach’s pH ...

For the overall study population, the H. pylori eradication rate was 80.8% with the vonoprazan-based triplet and 77.2% with the doublet versus 68.5% with lansoprazole triple therapy, while those ...

H. pylori has evolved in human microbiomes for at least 100,000 years. It came into a bigger spotlight in 2005, when the Australian physicians Dr. Barry J. Marshall and Dr. J. Robin Warren won the ...