India, Oct. 21 -- Berlin (dpa) - Gastriculcers are not only painful, they can leadto more serious conditions such as sepsis and mean that a patient is more vulnerable than others to developing stomach cancer. Usually treated with antibiotics - which germs are increasingly becoming resistant to - such ulcers can also be caused by taking too much steroid-based medicationssuch as ibuprofen, which can irritate or damage the lining of the stomach. But prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes - and with that in mind ateam of scientists in the Philippines are making progress with developing a world-first vaccine that targets widespread germ Helicobacter pylori, also known as H.pylori, which is found in around 60% of people and which is t...