LONDON (AP) -- In a study testing treatments for leg ulcers, British doctors found that a surprising, yet perhaps revolting, option works just as well as standard treatment: maggots.If that sounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

had nothing to lose lisa Baxter thought she had seen it all. The manager of Tufts wound care team, She spent years evaluating sores, incisions and infections in hospitalized patients. I'm not grossed ...

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 ...

A doctor testified that an Australian care home attempted to block him from informing an ailing 94-year-old’s family about maggots that were found in an untreated wound on her foot days before her ...