Cattle gallstones are valuable due to their use in Chinese medicine. Some stones sell for twice the price of gold.

Lucknow: Doctors at the gastroenterology department of Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) emphasised prioritising pre-surgical e.

Included in this prospective study cohort were all patients with CBDS and gallbladder stones treated with laparoscopic common bile duct stone extraction (LCBDE) at the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital ...

For those experiencing unexplained upper abdominal pain, doctors recommend seeking medical advice instead of self-medicating ...

Ten gallbladder surgeries were carried out at Hospital on Sunday with the help of high-tech robots in an effort to cut ...

Since the advent of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the management strategy for CBD stones has been a subject of much discussion but with the absence of an established consensus. According to some ...

To show what lengths I’ll go to for winter column fodder, I’ve turned to  gallstones as both subject matter and a last gasp retirement plan. I speak not of human “stones,” made of bad cholesterol, but ...

In the dead of night at a slaughterhouse in Brazil’s southeastern farming belt, a group of men splattered in blood gathered around the entrails of a cow to see if they had hit gold.

Gallbladder stones, or cholelithiasis, have emerged as a growing trend in today's fast-paced world, with their prevalence on the rise due to increasingly sedentary lifestyles. Surprisingly ...

Sometimes when I surf the internet for column ideas, I uncover a nugget of information about agriculture that makes me feel ...

She said there was also the significant link between large gallbladder stones and the disease, underscoring the importance of pathological evaluation of the gallbladder post-removal for early ...