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 newly discovered fossil has fundamentally changed our understanding of leech evolution. Once believed to have appeared around 150–200 million years ago, leeches are now confirmed to be at least 200 ...

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 ...