Arthritic Pain? So Long, Sucker; German Study Finds Medicinal Leeches Relieve Hurting Knees
In a rare tribute to blood-sucking, German physicians report leech treatment relieves the excruciating knee pain of arthritis more effectively than conventional drug therapy.
It might seem like a story from the days before Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type, but it appears as a sober report in the Nov. 4 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine about a carefully controlled, thoroughly modern medical trial.