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 ...

The enigma emerged in the form of some greenish-white pus, swabbed from the wound of a patient not long after surgery. On Dec. 13th, 2012, surgeons at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics had ...

HOUSTON – Are you thinking of having a little nip or tuck to improve your appearance? You're not alone -- 17.5 million folks had a little work done last year. That is up 2 percent over the year before ...

It’s nice to think of modern medicine, like modern war, as high-tech, almost impersonal. Our medications are engineered on a molecular level. Keyhole surgery, computerized imaging, and robotics ...

FLAGSTAFF - Jim Roy was trimming trees in his yard on a Sunday afternoon when he was hurt. He was standing on a lift on Dec. 5, and the rope he was using to guide branches down to the ground away from ...

Yes, they’re creepy crawly blood-suckers. And they can instill an almost primal sense of disgust and revulsion. Humphrey Bogart’s character in the 1951 film The African Queen even went so far as to ...

An event from long ago remains vivid in my mind. Each summer when I was still in elementary school, the Pitts family joined mine to spend two weeks at the Fish Creek Ponds public campsite in the ...

Sucking your thumb might be the best way to save it -- at least when the sucking is done by leeches. The three-jawed freshwater parasites, approved last week as medical devices by the Food and Drug ...

Yelena Titova shakes a jar holding a few dozen leeches writhing in slightly murky water. When one of them sinks to the bottom, motionless, she plunges her hand in and retrieves the late bloodsucker.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Botched patient Tawny Kitaen may be best known as the model from the White Snake videos, but six boob jobs and 30 years later, she ...