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 ...

A Charlotte nursing home that allowed a woman’s wound to become infested with maggots has already been cited by North Carolina’s health department. Now, her grandson is asking a judge to make the ...

Social services investigators determined a Henrico County nursing home resident, who said his wound became infested with maggots, was neglected at his facility due to a lapse in wound care.

Medical professionals across the globe are rediscovering an ancient healing practice that predates modern antibiotics by thousands of years. Maggot therapy, also known as larval debridement therapy, ...