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

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

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Leeches made a medical comeback as “hirudotherapy”, starting in the 1960s and widely used since the 1980s. Researchers have ...

Harris Health Ben Taub hospital uses leeches in their post-surgical ICU unit. Here's how the critters do life-saving work.

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Of those, 65 per cent are venomous, but only 32 per cent are considered dangerous, meaning their bites have the potential to be life-threatening. Despite this, Ms Stevens said people should ...

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Ella Dowling, 19, was riding the bus with friends when a man she didn't know suddenly started attacking her, viciously biting her face Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

Oct. 21—MORRISON — A Savanna man held Monday in the Whiteside County Jail is accused of threatening three people Saturday, stabbing and wounding one man, using a knife to detain two of them, and ...