Cow Gallstones Are Now More Valuable Than Gold

Due to increasing demand from mainland China and Hong Kong, cow gallstones have become one of the world’s most valuable commodities.
Doctors Remove Over 200 Stones from Woman’s Body in a Single Operation

Surgeons at Guanji Hospital, in Hezhou, China, recently spent six hours removing over 200 stones from a woman’s gallbladder and liver, some of them the size of small eggs. The patient, a 45-year-old woman known only as Ms. Chen, had apparently been experiencing abdominal pain for over a decade. When she first went to a hospital […]