Maggot therapy is becoming increasingly established as an option for the debridement and treatment of sloughy, necrotic wounds. Although used tentatively over the previous few decades, it became more ...

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 ...

Having run out of conventional medical treatments and facing hospice care, a 60-year-old man is alive and recovering thanks to maggot therapy. Lisa Baxter, manager of the wound care team at Tufts ...

The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (Kari) has begun maggot therapy trials in wound treatment. Dr Phoebe Mukiria from Kari Trypanosomiasis Research Center (TRC) regrets wound care in Kenya is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — An Iowa woman was ...