You may have heard about leeches being used indiscriminately to treat all kinds of illnesses, from cancer to mental illness in the 19th century. The discrediting of general "bleeding" as a ...

But leeches aren’t just useful at crime scenes. These creatures’ sanguineous appetites have also come in handy for scientists, who are hoping to use them to solve another mystery: the diversity of ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley interviews a surgeon who is pioneering the use of leeches in medical research. He allows a leech to attach to his arm and suck his blood, the mouth of the ...

But waiting in the wings is something formidable. I was shocked to see the leeches eating the toadlets Naturalist and all-round wildlife guru John Walters sent us to a remote pool in Dartmoor ...

Leeches are a very interesting animal, and one that most people try to avoid. They were used for centuries by doctors to ...

ANKARA, November 19. /TASS/. Customs officials at Istanbul International Airport have confiscated 5,000 medicinal leeches from two Russian citizens after they could not produce the paperwork for ...