Medicinal leech therapy has a long history in traditional medicine, particularly in the treatment of various ailments related to blood circulation. Recent research has focused on the therapeutic ...

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Sucking leech. Image by GlebK, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Did you know that there are around 480 different ...

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After more than 70 years of effective clinical use, heparin remains the most common anticoagulant in use and one of the most commonly prescribed drugs to hospitalized patients. However, the ...