{"id":8678,"date":"2016-12-08T17:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/demand-from-french-hospitals-ensures-healthy-trade-in-leeches\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:38:14","slug":"demand-from-french-hospitals-ensures-healthy-trade-in-leeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/demand-from-french-hospitals-ensures-healthy-trade-in-leeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand from French hospitals ensures healthy trade in leeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/demand-french-hospitals-ensures-healthy-trade-leeches-154538060.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-08T154538Z_1_LYNXMPECB70SV_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE-LEECHES.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"A man arrives to deliver leeches at a service for burned patients at the CHU hospital Pellegrin in Bordeaux, Southwestern France\" align=\"left\" title=\"A man arrives to deliver leeches at a service for burned patients at the CHU hospital Pellegrin in Bordeaux, Southwestern France\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>By Claude Canellas AUDENGE, France (Reuters) \u2013 French hospitals have long been using leeches to prevent blood clots after surgery and their use looks set to expand as scientists say the animal could in future be used to treat problems including rheumatism and osteoarthritis. For the last 23 years, Brigitte Latrille has been cultivating leeches in her laboratory near Bordeaux, and says she is doing a roaring trade. \u201cIn France, we\u2019re getting orders from all the hospitals with plastic surgery centers, whether it\u2019s Marseilles, Strasbourg or others such as the CHU hospital in Bordeaux,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Claude Canellas AUDENGE, France (Reuters) \u2013 French hospitals have long been using leeches to prevent blood clots after surgery and their use looks set to expand as scientists say the animal could in future be used to treat problems including rheumatism and osteoarthritis. For the last 23 years, Brigitte Latrille has been cultivating leeches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-08T154538Z_1_LYNXMPECB70SV_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE-LEECHES.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}