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

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

Medicinal leeches, once common in the UK, have seen a resurgence, with London's zoo successfully breeding them in captivity for the first time. Despite past exploitation, their role in modern medicine ...

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

Surgeons still use leeches to improve the success rates of surgery, such as when reattaching severed fingers as their saliva prevents post-surgery blood clotting inside veins. The medicinal leech ...

Upon medical examination, a live leech was found hidden deep inside ... The doctor reportedly used the telescope method to perform the surgery without damaging the surrounding tissues.

Although used in just a handful of cases, leeches can help with everything from coagulating blood after skin graft surgeries, cancer surgery reconstruction and helping to reattach severed fingers ...

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