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It also specializes in an outpatient surgery known as lithotripsy, which uses shockwaves to crush kidney stones.

Blanchflower was severely injured, suffering from a fractured pelvis and arms and legs, and crushed kidneys, and his right arm was nearly severed.

The Justice Department said agents posing as executives paid bribes to win a place aboard the space shuttle for a fake device to detect and crush kidney stones during space missions.

The High Cost of Oversupply As for cost, new devices that have become parts of day-to-day medicine - like magnetic resonance imagers, which permit doctors to see abnormalities in the brain, spine and other parts of the body, and lithotripters, which crush kidney stones with sound waves - are expensive to purchase and operate.