As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year. For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo ...

Leeches are blood-sucking animals that have two suckers used to attach to other creatures and feed. Getty Images/iStockphoto “Leeches are blood-sucking endoparasite segmented worms characterized ...

He allows a leech to attach to his arm and suck his blood, the mouth of the leech is seen close up. The leech multiplies its body mass by six or seven times and will now not need to feed for ...

Leeches could soon make a medical comeback ... in their knees reported an amazing improvement 24 hours after the blood-suckers were applied. The treatment produced rapid pain relief, with the ...

“Contrary to popular opinion, [leeches] don’t just suck,” says Mark Siddall, an invertebrate zoologist at the American ... Despite their reputation, many don’t feed on blood, instead eating earthworms ...

Hirudotherapy is a treatment method using leeches, that has been known for hundreds of years. SBS Russian spoke to a Melbourne naturopath, Inna Mitelman, about how widely this method is known in ...