I’m terrified of leeches, but desperate to stop avoiding lakes. So I called a leech therapist, learned what a leech facial ...

Could voracious bloodsucking creatures, looking for a new post-Halloween role, find it in medicine? In a paper published today, a group of researchers suggests that letting four to six leeches suck ...

An event from long ago remains vivid in my mind. Each summer when I was still in elementary school, the Pitts family joined mine to spend two weeks at the Fish Creek Ponds public campsite in the ...

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters Life!) - Leeches, widely used by doctors to promote bloodletting in the past, are making a comeback in Indian Kashmir to heal pain and other ailments, attracting patients from ...

Medicinal leech therapy (MLT), also known as hirudotherapy, has transcended its ancient origins to become an adjunct in modern clinical practice. The therapy exploits the potent anticoagulant, ...

Northumbria University, Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood ...

As someone who has had real, live leeches crawl across his face in nose-reconstruction surgery, retired Stanford professor William Rambo is all for a mechanical alternative. Rambo and patients who ...

Before modern miracles, medicine was a nightmare. Discover the brutal, bizarre, and often deadly treatments of the past. Hoekstra downplays fears of Trump administration meddling in Canada's politics ...