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Prasco Laboratories, a privately held pharmaceutical company specializing in generic drugs, announced Thursday it had entered into a distribution and supply agreement with Axcan Pharma US Inc.
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Gallstones are lumps or stones that develop in the gallbladder or bile duct. Some of the chemicals which exist in the gallbladder, such as cholesterol, calcium bilirubinate, and calcium carbonate, harden into either one large stone or many small ones.
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But not in mice developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Even when these mice eat high-fat diets, they don't get fat, but they do develop gallstones.
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Do you have pain after you eat? Many attribute it to heartburn, but in fact it could be something more serious, gallstones.
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