Find out how medicinal leeches are reclaiming a place in modern surgery and therapy, offering unique healing benefits.
Credit: RZSS/Cover Images A project to help restore Scotland’s population of medicinal leeches has welcomed the arrival of the first babies. Over the past month, twenty of the wriggly juveniles have ...
William Sheehy (57) and Eleanor Sheehy (50), of Grange More, Timoleague, Co Cork, appeared before Judge Monika Leech at ...
A couple who were each convicted of six charges under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 relating to animal cruelty at a puppy farm they operated from an old piggery on their West Cork farm are ...
Emaciated dogs with coats matted with faeces and urine, including one which appeared “skeletal” when its cement-like coat was shaved off, were found at a Cork puppy farm. 57-year-old farmer William ...
Kennels, located in a former piggery, kept breeds including cocker spaniels, poodles and Jack Russell terriers ...
Fire officials gave a preliminary count of the number of structures destroyed by the Mountain Fire, pegging it at 132, mostly homes. Another 88 have been damaged, they said at a news conference ...
Leeches made a medical comeback as “hirudotherapy”, starting in the 1960s and widely used since the 1980s. Researchers have ...
Fish are the perfect starter pet for kids and adults, right? Well, it might not be as simple as you think. To avoid ...
IFA is once again teaming up with Purina, Hill's Science Diet and Victor to donate pet food and livestock feed to local ...
This includes flesh-eating leeches and giant earthworms, which rise out of soil to the surface when in heavy rain. The leeches come on top of reports that poisonous toads have invaded the camp ...