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Russia breeds 10 times more leeches than the rest of the world combined, most of them raised at the International Medical Leech Center at Udelnaya. It is an institution that has existed since 1937, producing 3 million leeches annually. It is now taking advantage of the growing popularity of leech therapy, also known as Hirudotherapy, around the world. Demi Moore last year spoke about the cleansing effects of leeches; Britain's National Health Service buys 50,000 bloodsuckers every year; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved leech therapy in 2004 because they proved beneficial in increasing blood circulation...
Today the center sells the leeches to plastic surgeons, who put them on wounds to reduce the chance of scarring, to dentists, who apply them on gums to reduce swelling, and even to gynecologists, who use them to treat sexually transmitted diseases (Yes. You imagine right.). The oral cavity of the leech is rich with an anticoagulant, which allows the animal to feed continuously on blood but which also delivers the anti-clotting substance more effectively to the area of a wound than would a small injection puncture. Indeed, leeches are used very much like syringes. After a leech...
...away with a comfortable 10-2 victory to sweep the two-game series. The Tigers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second, hitting a pair of home runs off Harvard freshman Brent Suter. The Crimson was able to pull to within one when sophomore center fielder Dillon O'Neill lined a two-run single up the middle. But that would be as close as Harvard would come, as LSU scored two runs in the fourth inning and five in the seventh...
...Rogers helped Harvard scrape together a couple of runs in the seventh with a two-run double to left field. But sophomore shortstop Sean O’Hara flied out to center and Douglas grounded out to the pitcher to end the game...
...buyers. Until this week's brouhaha, Le Pen had been focused on making way as leader for his daughter Marine. Other would-be successors, who believe the younger Le Pen is too moderate, have decried the plan. Now the controversy in Strasbourg has allowed Le Pen to re-assume center stage...