Starting on Friday, British doctors will be able to prescribe maggots to patients with infected wounds, a hospital official said. He said the state National Health Service had realized that maggots ...

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 ...

had nothing to lose lisa Baxter thought she had seen it all. The manager of Tufts wound care team, She spent years evaluating sores, incisions and infections in hospitalized patients. I'm not grossed ...

KENYA: The green toilet fly is an unwanted guest in many people’s homes. Owing to its living environments, which include latrines, toilets and hovering over dead rotting carcasses, many people swat it ...

Malodorous, fungating wounds in the final stages of life for a patient with cancer have remained a challenge to physicians and wound care nurses as a result of the incurable nature of the disease and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Putting flesh-eating maggots into open wounds may not be such a great idea after all. They do clean wounds more quickly than normal treatment but this does not lead to faster ...