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

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

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 ...

Located in an industrial stretch of Brooklyn's waterfront, MDC Brooklyn is the sole federal jail in New York City. The other federal jail, the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, closed in ...

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 ...

According to the USDA, the name screwworm refers to the maggots’ feeding behavior as they burrow (screw) into wounds, feeding as they go like a screw being driven into wood. Maggots cause ...

The maggot-filled food is a delicacy to many, but was deemed the world’s most dangerous cheese by the Guinness World Records in 2009. Advert The maggot-y cheese is so controversial that it is ...

A horse has died at just four months old after he was found with maggot-infested wounds. Billy and Patch were brought to Redwings, one of the UK's biggest horse welfare charities, from a location in ...

A major health care provider is making cuts, and it likely won’t be the last. Valley Medical Center is closing five clinics, including an urgent care center in Renton. It’s consolidating two ...

One of two foals found infested with maggots and suffering with liver disease has had to be put down – and the other is not out of the woods yet. Months-old cobs Billy and Patch were taken in by ...

A diagnostic medical sonographer could be answering the question "Is it a boy or a girl?" as well as a host of other life-changing medical questions with the help of ultrasound technology.