Live maggots outperform traditional surgery in healing chronic wounds. Medical maggot therapy shows faster recovery times and ...

For each round, one vial of medical maggots (Monarch Labs, Irvine, CA) was applied and removed after 48 hours by a wound nurse, according to the protocol provided by the manufacturer and Maggot ...

A diabetic patient, Aisha Abubakar, who was just two hours away from having her foot amputated, has narrated how an unusual medical intervention at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital gave her a new ...

Fearing a resurgence of the New World Screwworm parasite in the US, the Department of Agriculture block livestock imports from Mexico ...

Fitzgerald, a rhinoceros at the Montgomery Zoo, is recovering after undergoing surgery in April to treat an infection in his horn, zoo officials say.

Evidence of a fly strike. Presence of fly maggots in wounds. Maggots in a wound or a body part need to be removed by a medical professional, the CDC says. Don’t try to remove them yourself.

New World Screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, is traveling north from Central ...

Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, ...