Using leeches to suck the blood out of a person might sound medieval, but it’s actually a medicinal practice still used today at many trauma hospitals. Though only used in a handful of cases, the ...

For the first time in 40 years, scientists have discovered a new species of medicinal leech in North America in a Maryland swamp. A team of researchers made the discovery in 2015 and published their ...

A recent genetic analysis of the medicinal leech has revealed that one species should be classified as three, and suggests that many leeches sold commercially have been misidentified -- oversights ...

Andrew Plucinski’s leeches are picky about skin. When offered the chance to bite a person who bathes in smelly soap they recoil, even when they’re hungry. Leeches prefer their humans unseasoned. In ...

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 ...

(RTTNews) - Cuprina Holdings (Cayman) Ltd. (CUPR) announced two strategic developments aimed at expanding its footprint in the Middle East and North Africa or MENA and Gulf Cooperation Council or GCC ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Leeches have been used in medicine ...

An international team of museum scientists led by Anna Phillips, the Smithsonian's curator of parasitic worms, describe Macrobdella mimicus, the first new species of medicinal leech discovered in over ...

A worker at the International Center for Medicinal Leeches holds mother leeches, ones used for breeding purposes only, near Moscow, April 10, 2017. Leeches are still widely prescribed in Russian ...