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Freshwater wetlands from Georgia to New York are home to a previously unrecognized species of medicinal leech, according to scientists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of National History. The new ...

If you want to portray the primitive nature of medical science from a few centuries ago, you’d have awful things in your toolkit — a saw, perhaps, odd potions, and probably leeches. “Leeches have been ...

Phillips discovered the new leech species in the field, then found specimens in her museum's collections dating back to 1937. If biologists had discovered the "medicinal" leech Macrobdella mimicus 200 ...

The results of new research published this week in Scientific Reports reveal insights that may have profound effects on the use of medicinal leeches in hospital-based medicine. An international team ...

After millennia of service, the medicinal leech may finally have met its mechanical match, a novel device that effectively performs the same function as the medicinal leech - promoting the flow of ...

TORONTO, ON- OCTOBER 29 - A European medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, is bigger after feeding on a blood sausage. The rear of the leech is the bigger part with a smaller head that has multiple ...

Medicinal leeches (notably Hirudo verbana) maintain a remarkably simple yet deeply integrated microbial community within their digestive tract. This symbiosis is dominated by two bacterial species, ...

Medicinal leech therapy has re-emerged as a vital adjunct in reconstructive microsurgery for the management of venous congestion in transferred or replanted tissue. The application of Hirudo ...

A new study offers insights into the powerful anticoagulants contained in the saliva of leeches most often used in medical practice. The results of new research published this week in Scientific ...

Freshwater wetlands from Georgia to New York are home to a previously unrecognized species of medicinal leech, according to scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of National History. The new ...