A prized ingredient in China’s multibillion-dollar industry for traditional medicine, gallstones have become the must-have item among underground traders and armed robbers in Brazil.

Gallstones are solid lumps that form in the gallbladder when stored bile crystallizes. They are pebble-like and can be the size of a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball. Most of the time ...

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

and most gallstones are cholesterol-rich”. The authors therefore carried out a large, long-term, observational, case–control study to examine the association between the use of statins and ...

“Just look at the size of that,” one worker said as he pressed the animal’s flesh through a sieve to reveal a hardened dark orange lump almost as big as a golf ball, glistening under the ...

Selling gallstones isn’t illegal in Brazil ... sugar to the center of the stones to increase their weight. With large swaths of the market still operating outside the law, data on the scale ...