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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Karen Dente discusses the benefits of free-range maggot therapy. Around since antiquity and used by many cultures, maggots clean wounds by eating infected dead tissue, allowing new tissue to grow.

KARI Director of Trypanosomiasis Research Centre Dr Phoebe Mukiria explains ‘maggot therapy’ during Kenya Science Journalists Congress held at Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, last week.

Maggot therapy has never shown prevent osteomyelitis and death. LTACs may provide level of care for hospital or nursing home acquired decubitus ulcer patients. Literature indicates that patients with ...

They make even the most stalwart among us squirm and say, "Ewwwwww." But leeches and maggots are now approved medical devices the first live animals to earn the distinction. The FDA sanctioned leeches ...

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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 ...