Maggot therapy was common in the United States in the 1930s but was replaced by antibiotics in the following decade or so.

Maggot therapy an effective treatment for open wounds The maggot is the first animal to receive FDA approval as a medical device to heal wounds.

With the advent of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, many physicians have returned to maggots as a viable option for wound cleaning and therapy.

'House of the Dragon' is known for its medieval motifs, but maggot therapy is still in use today.

The ancient therapy of using maggots to heal wounds is making a medical comeback, in part due to the widespread — and growing — problem of antibiotic resistance. In fact, the Food and Drug ...

But she heard about maggot therapy from a friend who had seen it on The Learning Channel. While it took some convincing of her doctors, Mitchell said they agreed to try it before amputation.

By 1950, maggot therapy had all but disappeared from published literature. Now, however, non-healing wounds are on the rise—and so, the use maggot therapy is taking flight once more.

House of the Dragon depicts maggot therapy to treat King Viserys's wound. Here's what maggot therapy is, how it works, and if it's still used today.

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 ...

The maggots even wiggled out of the wound when their work was done, collecting on the dressing to be thrown away. It sounds disgusting, but maggot therapy saved many lives and limbs.

Having run out of conventional medical treatments and facing hospice care, a 60-year-old man is alive and recovering thanks to maggot therapy.