Demi Moore has revealed that she used blood-sucking leeches as part of a beauty treatment in Austria. The actress said that the "highly-trained medical leeches" helped detoxify her blood and ensured ...

Leeches are blood-feeding organisms that have a suite of anticoagulant compounds they secrete from their salivary glands that prevent blood clotting. This allows them to maximize feeding time and ...

A mobile medical team working in rural Ethiopia met a man with unexplainable bloody spit — then found an animal living in his throat, doctors said. As doctors visited the home of a 65-year-old farmer ...

You might think you know leeches: Go for a swim in the wrong shallow lake, and you’ll emerge covered in sleek black bloodsuckers that have decided you’re their next meal. But inside a leech, ...

Michael Tessler realized his life had taken an odd turn. His days were spent not in an office, not out with friends — but alone in the woods, attracting leeches. Sometimes, they were so bountiful that ...

Many people are afraid of needles, and having a doctor take a blood sample from their arm makes them uncomfortable. There is an alternative: a prick to the fingertip or earlobe. But for many ...

A farmer’s bloody spit was caused by a creature living in his throat, doctors in Ethiopia said. Mulugeta Wolde via Unsplash A mobile medical team working in rural Ethiopia met a man with unexplainable ...