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

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

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 ...

Buglife Conservation Director, Craig Macadam said: “Medicinal leeches have an important place in our medical history but are ...

Twenty have hatched in a captive-breeding programme at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore. They are the ...

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 ...

For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis has been bred in captivity at London zoo , part of a longer-term project to help this fascinating if unloved creature. Once widespread in ...

For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis has been bred in captivity at London zoo, part of a longer-term project to help this fascinating if unloved creature. Once widespread in the ...