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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An event from long ago remains vivid in my mind. Each summer when I was still in elementary school, the Pitts family joined mine to spend two weeks at the Fish Creek Ponds public campsite in the ...

Yelena Titova shakes a jar holding a few dozen leeches writhing in slightly murky water. When one of them sinks to the bottom, motionless, she plunges her hand in and retrieves the late bloodsucker.

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 ...