As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a ...

Find out how medicinal leeches are reclaiming a place in modern surgery and therapy, offering unique healing benefits.

Using leeches to suck the blood out of a person might sound medieval, but it’s actually a medicinal practice still used today at many trauma hospitals. Though only used in a handful of cases, the ...

The state’s Department of Human Services and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe have been working on improving relations.

Uttarakhand government endorses medicinal leech therapy as a non-invasive treatment for post-surgical recovery and skin rejuvenation, amidst growing interest and some controversy.

Twenty have hatched in a captive-breeding programme at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore. They are the ...

A DNR officer is being credited for his quick response and rescue efforts that saved six boys who capsized their boat while ...

In medicine they were used for bloodletting, a treatment involving the removal of blood in the belief it would cure ailments. Farmed leeches are still used to help tackle blood clots and improve ...

They seem to have been a bit of a luxury treatment, too expensive for the poor. The use of leeches to treat all sorts of ailments goes back to at least 1500BC, appearing in Egyptian tomb decorations.

You may have heard about leeches being used indiscriminately to treat all kinds of illnesses, from cancer to mental illness in the 19th century. The discrediting of general “bleeding” as a treatment ...