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Editor's Note: The video of leeches used in surgery is a bit bloody — especially after the 2-minute mark. Leeches get a bad rap — but they might not deserve it. Yes, they're creepy crawly ...

Leeches are particularly useful in two kinds of surgery -- reattaching fingers, and attaching flaps of skin in reconstructive surgery -- as the leeches help re-establish blood flow. Maggots can be ...

Botched patient Tawny Kitaen may be best known as the model from the White Snake videos, but six boob jobs and 30 years later, she has a different outlook on life. Kitaen said she has spent more than ...

Medicinal leeches? At first reference it might seem like a plot line for a cheesy horror movie about mad doctors, but the blood-sucking creatures have been feasting for the good of reconstructive ...

Houston police are seeking public assistance to identify a man who may have information about a shooting that injured a 7-year-old boy at an apartment complex on Northborough Drive. HOUSTON – Are you ...

The enigma emerged in the form of some greenish-white pus, swabbed from the wound of a patient not long after surgery. On Dec. 13th, 2012, surgeons at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics had ...

FLAGSTAFF - Jim Roy was trimming trees in his yard on a Sunday afternoon when he was hurt. He was standing on a lift on Dec. 5, and the rope he was using to guide branches down to the ground away from ...

Botched patient Tawny Kitaen may be best known as the model from the White Snake videos, but 6 boob jobs and 30 years later, she has a different outlook on life. Kitaen said she has spent over ...

Yes, they're creepy crawly blood-suckers. And they can instill an almost primal sense of disgust and revulsion. Humphrey Bogart's character in the 1951 film The African Queen even went so far as to ...