In its larval stage, Lucilia sericata looks unassuming enough. Beige and millimeters long, a bottle-fly grub may lack good looks, but it contains a sophisticated set of tools for eating dead and dying ...

Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers. Now, maggot therapy has ...

WASHINGTON -- Think of these wriggly little creatures not as, well, gross, but as miniature surgeons: Maggots are making a medical comeback, cleaning out wounds that just won't heal. Wound-care ...

Scientists are reviving an 18th century therapy involving maggots and adding their own 21st century twist to treat infected ulcers and wounds. The modern treatment now uses genetically modified ...

A tea bag full of maggots may not sound like something you would want on an open wound, but research shows they work wonders - if only nurses will use them. A study investigated whether squeamishness ...

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) ...

Maggot therapy is becoming increasingly established as an option for the debridement and treatment of sloughy, necrotic wounds. Although used tentatively over the previous few decades, it became more ...

Maggots aren't high on most people's favorite-animals list. But maggots--specifically, the larvae of the green blowfly, Phaenicia sericata--can be helpful for the very reason they horrify. By eating ...

If you've been keeping up with HBO's "House of the Dragon," you may have noticed the show feels a lot less magic-driven. In place of "Game of Thrones"-style postmortem revival of characters like Jon ...