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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...