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

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

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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 ...

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 ...

A project in Scotland has successfully hatched the first baby medicinal leeches to help restore their population. Twenty juvenile leeches were born over the past month at Highland Wildlife Park. The ...

This natural survival strategy, known as coprophagy, reveals how wildlife makes the most of every available resource.

A 29-year-old Locust Grove man was killed Thursday evening in an accident near Leach in Delaware County, the Oklahoma Highway ...