HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania caregiver has been charged with homicide after authorities say she failed to properly treat a man with a congenital defect who died after his foot wounds ...

These kinds of wounds really smell foul.” The doctors and nurses treating her husband had never heard of using maggots for ...

A 46-year-old man was left with a rotten foot after he was bitten by an insect while doing volunteer work in Africa in 2017. The infection became so severe he thought he would not survive to return to ...

A U.K. man said he is lucky to be alive and credits the 400 maggots used to eat away at a deadly infection in his foot with helping to save his life. Matthew Blurton, of Yorkshire, said he was bitten ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad ...

Maggot, or larval, therapy has been around since ancient times as a way to heal wounds. Now, the method has gone high-tech--in some ways--and it's being tested in a rigorous clinical trial at the ...

Malodorous, fungating wounds in the final stages of life for a patient with cancer have remained a challenge to physicians and wound care nurses as a result of the incurable nature of the disease and ...

A Berks County caregiver has been charged with homicide in the death of a Reading man due to "gruesome infection" that included foot wounds filled with maggots, said the state attorney general. Stacey ...

A former Pennsylvania caregiver has been charged with homicide after authorities say she failed to properly treat a man with a congenital defect who died after his foot wounds became severely infected ...