Scientists are reviving an 18th century therapy involving maggots and adding their own 21st century twist to treat infected ulcers and wounds. The modern treatment now uses genetically modified ...

WASHINGTON -- Think of these wriggly little creatures not as, well, gross, but as miniature surgeons: Maggots are making a medical comeback, cleaning out wounds that just won't heal. Wound-care ...

HealthDay News — Wound debridement is significantly faster with maggot therapy during the first week of treatment compared with conventional debridement, study data published online first in the ...

Because of the apparent value of their maggots in medicine, Department of Agriculture entomologists last week zealously bred two of the more than 30,000 kinds of known flies.* The entomologists were ...

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HUSUM, Germany (dpa) – These willing helpers may seem rather revolting but they’re a blessing to doctors – maggots, or more precisely fly larvae of the Lucilia sericata species. The little busy bodies ...

Phyllis Hulme’s family and friends were aghast when she told them doctors planned to put maggots on her leg ulcer. “I got some horrified looks. I think they thought: she’s old, she doesn’t know any ...

An Upstate New York nursing home has been cited, but not fined, after a patient’s granddaughter was horrified to learn that maggots were discovered in a wound on her 89-year-old grandmother’s leg and ...

WASHINGTON -- Think of these wiggly little creatures not as, well, gross, but as miniature surgeons: Maggots are making a medical comeback, cleaning out wounds that just won't heal. Wound-care clinics ...