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April 9, 2012 03:48 pm PDT

Herbal remedy used to treat kidney ailments causes kidney ailments

A plant known as "birthwort," popular in Asian and European herbal medicine for hundreds of years, causes kidney failure and cancer. Dan Vergano at USA Today digs into the fascinating medical detective work that solved this mystery: scientists compared genetic mutations in the tissue of humans and lab mice who'd been poisoned by the plant's [...]


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