The use of medicinal maggots, sometimes called maggot debridement therapy, was first widely reported during the time of Napoleon. His general surgeon reportedly used maggots as a technique of cleaning ...

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) ...

Maggots, a method that some might consider old-fashioned, are being used to treat wounds that won’t heal, in plastic surgery and in limb reattachments at a hospital in Branson. Liliane Sparks of ...

If unchecked, diabetes leads to damaged nerve endings, meaning small injuries can go unnoticed and turn into ulcers prone to life-threatening bacterial infections. The bacteria build a nearly ...

Maggot Therapy (also known as Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT), larval therapy, larva therapy, or larvae therapy), is the intentional introduction by a health care practitioner of live, disinfected ...

It’s easy to say you’d never, ever allow maggots to clean a wound on your foot. But what if the alternative was amputation? Could you get over your squeamishness for the chance to walk again? Linda ...

Doctors are rediscovering a disgusting but true bit of folk wisdom: maggots make a great cure for infected wounds. Grady Dugas, a physician in Marion, Louisiana, was at a loss. His patient, a ...

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 ...