Are leeches being used in modern medicine?

Medicinal leeches applied to the tongue

WATCH: See How Leeches Can Be A Surgeon's Sidekick

Discouraging leeches from beach area - Cottage Life

Questions for: 'Despite the “Yuck Factor,” Leeches Are Big in Russian Medicine' - The New York Times

Leeches (Hirudineans)

Biomonitoring Macroinvertebrates-Leeches, Monitoring and Assessment, Bureau of Land and Water Quality, Maine Department of Environmental Protection

This Smithsonian Scientist is on a Mission to Make Leeches Less Scary, Smithsonian Voices

Take One Leech and Call me in the Morning - Allen R Smith

Rare buffalo leeches. Still growing rapidly, will reach up to 2ft

Leeches Eat Blood! (Disgusting Animal Dinners): Coleman, Miriam