There it was: a gallstone. One of the most prized ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, cattle gallstones have become so valuable that traders are willing to pay as much as $5,800 an ounce ...

Dr. Sandeep Aggarwal explained which kind of shoulder pain is a sign of gallstone, and the additional signs that we should be ...

They range in size from grains of sand to golf balls. Gallstone attack symptoms include sudden pain after eating, nausea, and vomiting if a deposit blocks bile flow to your small intestine.

The hospital's general surgery department has dedicated its resources solely to gallbladder stone operations from February 10 ...

Kolkata: Doctors at the state-run IPGMER created a record by conducting 186 gallstone surgeries in five days during a special ...

Recently, the price of cow gallstones is trading at prices higher than gold, becoming the center of smuggling and crime. This is because demand has surged as cow gallstones are known to be ...

The findings from the PROSPERO study reveal that multiple hospitalizations, long-term disease duration, prior surgeries, and factors like corticosteroid use and total parenteral nutrition ...

Gallstones are broadly classified into 2 major types: cholesterol stones and pigment stones, with the former type being the most common. 5 They can develop either in the gallbladder or in the bile ...

including complete resistance to diet-induced hypercholesterolemia and cholesterol gallstone formation. The underlying mechanism involves the lack of cholesterol ester synthesis in the intestine ...