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

Maggot therapy is a wound healing technique in which healthcare professionals apply medical grade maggots to dead or infected tissue to keep the wound clean. It is also known as larval therapy.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — An Iowa woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly neglecting an adult in her care, who was found with several ailments, including a maggot-infested wound. According to ...

Let maggots do the work. To allow such wounds to heal, doctors remove infected or dead tissue with scalpels or enzymes, a process they call debridement. But these tools often fail. "These problem ...

CHARLOTTE — A Charlotte nursing home is facing a lawsuit after a woman’s wound became infested with maggots, prompting her grandson to seek legal action against the facility and its owners.

Redwings, a Norfolk-based animal charity, is helping to nurse a horse with maggot-infested wounds back to health.

A Charlotte nursing home that allowed a woman’s wound to become infested with maggots has already been cited by North Carolina’s health department. Now, her grandson is asking a judge to make ...