Freeze damages local crops: Farmer says 300 acres, 1/3 of his sweet corn crop, damaged One grower in western Palm Beach County says the freeze over the past couple of days took a toll on his sweet ...

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 ...

had nothing to lose lisa Baxter thought she had seen it all. The manager of Tufts wound care team, She spent years evaluating sores, incisions and infections in hospitalized patients. I'm not grossed ...

CHARLOTTE — A Charlotte nursing home is facing a lawsuit after a woman’s wound became infested with maggots, prompting her grandson to seek legal action against the facility and its owners. Bernice ...

A Charlotte nursing home that allowed a woman’s wound to become infested with maggots has already been cited by North Carolina’s health department. Now, her grandson is asking a judge to make the ...

Covered in maggot-infested bed sores and suffering from sepsis, dehydration, and dangerously high blood sugar, an 87-year-old Melbourne woman died in what prosecutors described as a slow, agonizing ...