Cuprina Holdings (Cayman) Limited announced the appointment of Dr. Ronald A. Sherman as Medical and Scientific Director, effective September 2025. Dr. Sherman, an expert in medical maggot therapy for ...
If you’d like to hold your festering wound still for a moment, Ronald A. Sherman can plaster up to a thousand live maggots onto it and let them feed there until each grows to about the size of a ...
WASHINGTON -- 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. Wound-care ...
Maggots, leeches, scorpions, toads, newts, bats, lizards, goats and spider venom: "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." Of course the "wicked something" in the quote was a ...
Leeches and maggots are the last things most people want to see, especially in a hospital. However, the Food and Drug Administration is considering more regulatory control over who supplies them and ...
For most people, maggots and leeches are gross and disgusting. Even though they were once used medically, most modern practitioners are put off by these creatures as much as their patients are. But ...
Science writer Mary Roach is not easily repulsed. While researching her latest book, Grunt, Roach learned all about the medicinal use of maggots in World War I. She also purposely sniffed a putrid ...
Leeches and maggots are the last things most people want to see, especially in a hospital. However, the Food and Drug Administration is considering more regulatory control over who supplies them and ...
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