The VA study will involve up to 128 Veterans. It's comparing maggot therapy with the standard of care for diabetic wounds--a treatment called sharp debridement, in which a health care provider uses a ...

I have diabetes and an open sore on the outside of my foot that will not heal. My doctors mentioned using maggots to try to heal the wound. I know I'm running out of choices, but are they serious?

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. Now, maggot therapy has ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Applying maggots to a wound may sound peculiar, but maggot therapy has successfully healed open skin or soft ...

If unchecked, diabetes leads to damaged nerve endings, meaning small injuries can go unnoticed and turn into ulcers prone to life-threatening bacterial infections. The bacteria build a nearly ...

University of Manchester researchers are ridding diabetic patients of the superbug MRSA - by treating their foot ulcers with maggots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae ...

Findings showed treatment with SkinTE plus SOC resulted in more wound closure compared with SOC alone. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to SkinTE for ...

Whether systemic hyperbaric-oxygen therapy is effective for diabetic patients with foot ulcers that are resistant to other treatments remains controversial, due to a dearth of solid, consistent ...

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 ...