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. Maggot ...

If you’d like to hold your festering wound still for a moment, Ronald A. Sherman can plaster up to a thousand live maggots onto it and let them feed there until each grows to about the size of a ...

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 ...

Yamni is a professor at Swansea University, leading the Swansea University Maggot Research Group, and the Love a Maggot public engagement campaign. She is also currently a research supervisor for a ...