Meanwhile, if your doctor pulls out a bag of maggots to treat your skin wound, don't recoil too quickly -- you may want to be blindfolded, but the treatment might just work better than a scalpel.

But maggots do more than that, says Sherman, ... Today, despite precise surgical techniques to cut out dying tissue, artificial skin and other high-tech treatments, ...

Dear Luka, Myiasis is a parasitic infestation by maggots or larvae of flies affecting the skin, eyes, nose and ears in a living person. On the skin, they cause painful itchy swellings.

The U.S. has blocked imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through southern border ports following the resurgence in Mexico of the New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly that infects animals and ...

GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 5 (UPI) --A Chinese man who noticed sores on the side of his body following a trip to Africa had 20 maggots removed from beneath his skin. The man, identified by the surname ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (CBS) – A new study about maggots might make your skin crawl, but it also has good news when it comes to treating wounds. "Maggot therapy" was approved by the FDA back in 2004 for ...