Researchers in the Philippines have announced an exciting first step towards a vaccine against stomach ulcers and cancer – but there’s still a lot of work and time to go before you can expect to get one. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

If you've found yourself noticeably stressed out in front of a boomer at some point – and let's face it, whomst among us has not – chances are they might have issued a warning. "Calm down," they may have said, "you'll give yourself an ulcer!"

Now, it's not their fault: until 1983, the received wisdom was that stomach ulcers were indeed caused by lifestyle factors such as stress, spicy food, and smoking. But ever since Barry Marshall drank that ulcer soup and purposefully infected and

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