Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances: Eradicating Helicobacter Pylori Infections to Treat Ulcers

22 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2019 Last revised: 13 Jan 2022

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Amar Bhide

Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health

Srikant Datar

Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit

Katherine Stebbins

Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

Date Written: May 15, 2021

Abstract

We describe how a chance discovery of bacteria that infect stomach linings completely changed how physicians treat ulcers. Specifically, we chronicle how:

1) two Australian physicians brought the bacterial infection to the world’s attention and challenged the conventional view that stomach acidity caused ulcers;

2) a global community of researchers helped corroborate the Australians’ findings and developed convenient tests and effective treatments; and

3) these tests and treatments were gradually, but not immediately, adopted.

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment, Technological Innovation, Innovation Strategy, Technology Adoption, Collaborative Innovation and Invention, Innovation and Invention, Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

Suggested Citation

Bhide, Amar and Datar, Srikant and Stebbins, Katherine, Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances: Eradicating Helicobacter Pylori Infections to Treat Ulcers (May 15, 2021). Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 20-006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3429959 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3429959

Amar Bhide

Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health ( email )

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Srikant Datar (Contact Author)

Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit ( email )

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Katherine Stebbins

Harvard University - Business School (HBS) ( email )

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Boston, MA 02163
United States

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