Every year, countless minor injuries occur in homes, garages and backyards across the country. The immediate instinct for many is to reach for a familiar brown bottle of hydrogen peroxide or a swab of ...

Paul Auerbach, M.D., is cofounder and former president of the Wilderness Medical Society, editor of the textbook Wilderness Medicine, and author of Medicine for the Outdoors. Still, there are times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clean minor wounds with mild soap and water, dermatologist May Hall recommends. (Getty) (PORNCHAI SODA via Getty Images) Do you ...

Most people think of wound care as a simple routine: clean the cut, apply something to it, and wait for it to heal. This approach works for very minor injuries, but it often falls short for anything ...

There's still some debate on whether they hurt more than a traditional scalpel, but the little creepy-crawlies are quick to digest dead tissue Maggots may trump scalpels when it comes to cleaning ...

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 clinics around the ...

HAMILTON, Ontario, Dec. 17 (UPI) --Soap and water is the standard method of washing wounds before surgery the same as it is at home, however researchers found in a new study that cleaning wounds with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers and pressure ulcers may heal faster when they are cleaned out frequently, a new study suggests. So-called ...

The idea of putting maggots into open flesh may sound repulsive, but such a therapy might be a quick way to clean wounds, a new study from France suggests. Men in the study, all of whom had wounds ...

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 ...