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 ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE, July 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cuprina Holdings (Cayman) Limited (Nasdaq: CUPR) (“CUPR” or “the Company”), a biomedical and biotechnology company dedicated to the development and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13/Gray News) - It’s the spooky season for creepy crawlies, but maggots? Tucson Medical Center recently used them to help keep a patient from having surgery. According to KOLD ...

Because of the apparent value of their maggots in medicine, Department of Agriculture entomologists last week zealously bred two of the more than 30,000 kinds of known flies.* The entomologists were ...

When it comes to curiosity, science writer Mary Roach describes herself as someone who is "very out there." Her new book, Grunt, looks at some... Science writer Mary Roach is not easily repulsed.