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.

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.

Cole Taschman and his friends were on the water Oct. 25 at Bathtub Beach when he felt 'the sharpest knife you can imagine' ...

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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 ...

A Yale study has identified that specific tastes from human sweat either attract or repel mosquitoes, affecting their biting and feeding behaviors.Understanding these taste mechanisms can help develop ...

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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 ...

MORRISON – A Savanna man is accused of threatening three people, stabbing and wounding one of them and biting another. Brett A. Cahoone, 31, was charged Oct. 21 with two counts of aggravated battery ...