Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers. Now, maggot therapy has ...

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 ...

Today, the BioTherapeutics, Education & Research (BTER) Foundation was notified that the American Medical Association (AMA), in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

If you've been keeping up with HBO's "House of the Dragon," you may have noticed the show feels a lot less magic-driven. In place of "Game of Thrones"-style postmortem revival of characters like Jon ...

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 ...

Maggots aren't high on most people's favorite-animals list. But maggots--specifically, the larvae of the green blowfly, Phaenicia sericata--can be helpful for the very reason they horrify. By eating ...

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 ...

Doctors in Massachusetts had run out of options in trying to save a man’s life. They then decided to turn to a less conventional option: maggot therapy. Boston.com reports how a 60-year-old man named ...

The appeal of the Game of Thrones universe is how it combines modern principles with a Middle Ages aesthetic. The politics can feel like an episode of Succession or The Sopranos, but it’s happening ...

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I have to admit, though, I was still stuck on the bugs for several minutes afterward. (And then for a few more days after that.) Was this a real thing at one point? The medieval times were, after all, ...

It's all about eating or getting eaten, as is the case for maggots and humans. Dr. Karen Dente discusses the benefits of free-range maggot therapy. Around since antiquity and used by many cultures, ...