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fudpuck · 06-29-2004, 01:45 PM

Ancient Bloodsuckers Approved for Therapy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blood-sucking leeches -- used for thousands of years in medicine -- now have the U.S. government's approval as a tool for healing skin grafts or restoring circulation, regulators said on Monday.

The Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) approved an application from French firm Ricarimpex SAS to market leeches for medicinal purposes. The company has been breeding leeches for 150 years, the FDA (news - web sites) said.

Doctors have used the small aquatic worms for several thousand years in the belief that bloodletting helps to cure a wide range of complaints from headaches to gout. They reached their height of medicinal use in the mid-1800s.

Today, doctors around the world use leeches to remove blood pooled under skin grafts for burn patients, or to restore circulation in blocked veins by removing pooled blood, the FDA said in a statement.

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06-29-2004, 01:45 PM
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