After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.

A disgusted restaurant customer’s video of a maggot inside a lemon wedge went viral, forcing the manager to resign. Steven Maurizzio visited Blue Nami sushi restaurant in Roseville, Calif., last month ...

When Diane Ullman's Entomology 1 class walked in the door Monday, they were not expecting to create art. And they were definitely not expecting to create that art with the help of squirming maggots.

You know those things in life that you know you shouldn’t watch (but do anyway)? We’ve got another one for you. A YouTube video of an unidentified woman having surgery on her lip has gone viral. In it ...

An ancient but uncommon therapy may help avoid amputation. March 20, 2009— -- With a worsening ulcer and the threat of losing a foot, Pam Mitchell was willing to try something drastic; she had ...

The use of medicinal maggots, sometimes called maggot debridement therapy, was first widely reported during the time of Napoleon. His general surgeon reportedly used maggots as a technique of cleaning ...

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 ...

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. Today, specially prepared ...

I know it’s just a robot, with skin made of silicone and muscles powered by air pressure. But as its body moves with a perfectly smooth cascading contraction, my throat tightens and my stomach ...

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