Matthew Blurton from Yorkshire was simply doing volunteer work in Africa last December when he experienced alarming symptoms. Blurton had seen a blister on his foot but thought nothing of it until he ...

Starting on Friday, British doctors will be able to prescribe maggots to patients with infected wounds, a hospital official said. He said the state National Health Service had realized that maggots ...

A 14-year-old boy lies in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, severely burned from an Israeli airstrike. Doctors say nearly his entire body is affected. His wounds have now become ...

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 ...

Doctors in Massachusetts had run out of options in trying to save a man’s life. They then decided to turn to a less conventional option: maggot therapy. Boston.com reports how a 60-year-old man named ...