Medical bills are often littered with bizarre line items. If you're in Russia, those little charges might include half a dozen slimy, slithering leeches. About 10 million of the blood-sucking ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (KPHO/CBS Newspath) - What's old is new again as leeches become more widely used in alternative medicine to treat all manner of maladies. "I couldn't pop another pill," said Vicky ...

The traditional practice of Leech Therapy is proving particularly effective in treating conditions such as dermatological issues, poor blood circulation, gangrene, eczema, and hair problems. DEHRADUN: ...

Medicinal leech therapy (MLT), also known as hirudotherapy, has transcended its ancient origins to become an adjunct in modern clinical practice. The therapy exploits the potent anticoagulant, ...

Patna: Once dismissed as a relic of medieval medicine, leech therapy is crawling back into Bihar’s healing scene. What was once mentioned in the 3000-.

Just when you think "alternative medicine" can't get any worse, an article in The Week will prove you wrong. It's about leech therapy. You will learn that there is an approved use for these creatures, ...

Bloodletting and leech therapy has a long and storied past. For thousands of years, physicians and healers have employed the bloodsucking leech to treat myriad conditions that assail the human body, ...

There’s no better place to confess indulging in weird or off-the-wall beauty treatments than in the presence of Gwyneth Paltrow at the Goop Health Summit. Miranda Kerr did just that over the weekend ...

At home most evenings, Memphis, Tennessee, attorney John Dunlap, 80, unbuttons and removes his white dress shirt and — counting his steps and remembering which way to turn — carefully walks with a ...