Woman Suffering from Chronic Dehydration Has Over 300 Kidney Stones Removed
A 20-year-old woman from Taiwan recently underwent surgery to have no less than 300 small stones removed from her right kidney. The young woman, identified as Xiao Yu by Taiwanese media, was admitted to a hospital in the city of Tainan earlier this month, after complaining of severe pain in her lower back. She also […]
Chinese Farmer Invents Kidney Stone-Removing Bed for His Wife
Seeing his wife go through the excruciatingly painful process of passing kidney stones, a farmer in Jiangxi Province, China, created an ingenious bed that flips over and vibrates to help dislodge the stones. Zhu Qinghua, a 52-year-old rice farmer from Jiangxi had been thinking of ways of helping his wife since 1993, when she had her left kidney removed […]