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Wednesday, August 04, 2004It's a therapy quietly championed since the early 1990s by a California physician who's earned the nickname Dr. Maggot. But Dr. Ronald Sherman's maggots are getting more attention since, in January, they became the first live animals to win Food and Drug Administration approval as a medical device to clean out wounds. A medical device? They remove the dead tissue that impedes healing 'mechanically,' FDA determined. It's called chewing. But maggots do more than that, says Sherman, who raises the tiny, wormlike fly larvae in a laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. His research shows that in the mere two to three days they live in a wound, maggots also produce substances that kill bacteria and stimulate growth of healthy tissue. posted by Sydney on 8/04/2004 08:26:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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