Surgeons still use leeches to improve the success rates of surgery, such as when reattaching severed fingers as their saliva prevents post-surgery blood clotting inside veins. The medicinal leech ...

Seven-year-old Xiaoxiang was being treated for a cough and blood in his saliva in a hospital in China when he hacked up the ...

Despite its work helping people recover from surgery, unfortunately there is no happy ending for the leech. The leeches are a "biohazard" after they have been used on a person "It's like a dirty ...

Leeches are still occasionally used by the NHS today to help with blood flow when reconnecting tissue, such as a severed finger, during reconstructive or plastic surgery. Despite their name ...

Doctors first applied leeches to try to encourage blood to return ... Her foot had to be significantly altered in surgery, too. To replace Thomas’ big toe, doctors took a piece of her hip ...