The 35-year-old had to withdraw from a fight this week after succumbing to a kidney stone.

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The second application is for treating people who have ureteral stents placed, following their diagnosis of a kidney stone.

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However, in a similar study in women, no relationship was found between vitamin C intake and kidney stone formation.

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While they serve this important function, the pain due to the stents is often worse than the kidney stone itself.

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It turns out that when the electrical switches in these devices, nominally acquired for use as kidney stone-smashers, are employed in sequence, they can be used to detonate nuclear weapons.

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Long, low and wide, with a hood that can be measured in furlongs, the M6 has foot-wide rear tires, heroic brakes (love the blue calipers) and a cruel, humorless, inscrutable face, like Iron Man with a kidney stone.

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The bottom line is this: why even take the risk of developing a kidney stone-with its attendant pain and suffering-if high dose vitamin C has never been proven to have beneficial effects on our quality of health and risk for developing cardiovascular disease as well as cancer?

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Stones that are resistant to lithotripsy may be treated with a surgical procedure known as a percutaneous nephrolithotomy, in which an instrument is passed through the skin into the kidney to grab and break up or remove the stone.

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