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  2. Maggot therapy - Wikipedia

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    Maggots in medical packaging. Maggot therapy improves healing in chronic ulcers. [1] In diabetic foot ulcers there is tentative evidence of benefit. [3] A Cochrane review of methods for the debridement of venous leg ulcers found maggot therapy to be broadly as effective as most other methods, but the study also noted that the quality of data was poor.

  3. Insects in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Maggots secrete several chemicals that kill microbes, including allantoin, urea, phenylacetic acid, phenylacetaldehyde, calcium carbonate, proteolytic enzymes, and many others. [12] Maggots were used for wound healing by the Maya and by indigenous Australians.

  4. Myiasis - Wikipedia

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    Monarch Labs also sells maggots to hospitals and other medical practices, the first US commercial supplier to do so since the last one closed in 1935. [39] In the US, demand for these fly larvae doubled after the FDA ruling. Maggot therapy is now used in more than 300 sites across the country. [37]

  5. Disturbing video shows hundreds of maggots removed from ... - AOL

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    By RYAN GORMAN Horrifying video has emerged of doctors pulling maggots out of a man's ear. The unidentified Indian man went to a doctor's office to complain about hearing a non-stop buzzing sound.

  6. History of wound care - Wikipedia

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    Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon's Grande Armée pioneered the use of maggots to prevent infection in wounds. [28] They were also used by military medical aids during World War II. They worked as biomedical debriding agents by ingesting bacteria and breaking them down within their intestines.

  7. Medical maggots - Wikipedia

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  8. This disease kills more people than all cancers and accidents ...

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    "Any medical or clinical therapies that can treat the risk factors that contribute to CVD are essential," Churchwell wrote. We need to stop these risk factors in their tracks, keep people healthy ...

  9. US looking into whether DeepSeek used restricted AI chips ...

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    DeepSeek also apparently has Nvidia's less powerful H20s, which can still lawfully be shipped to China. The U.S. considered controlling them under the Biden administration and newly appointed ...