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 ...

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 ...

For most people, maggots and leeches are gross and disgusting. Even though they were once used medically, most modern practitioners are put off by these creatures as much as their patients are. But ...

Leeches and maggots are the last things most people want to see, especially in a hospital. However, the Food and Drug Administration is considering more regulatory control over who supplies them and ...

Science writer Mary Roach is not easily repulsed. While researching her latest book, Grunt, Roach learned all about the medicinal use of maggots in World War I. She also purposely sniffed a putrid ...

Leeches and maggots are the last things most people want to see, especially in a hospital. However, the Food and Drug Administration is considering more regulatory control over who supplies them and ...