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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=1410272"><DIV id="storyheader"><DIV class="headline"><H1>Maggots no wonder cure for festering wounds</H1></DIV><DIV class="clear"> </DIV><DIV class="subheadline"><H2></H2></DIV><DIV class="clear"> </DIV><DIV class="byline"><SPAN class="name">By Ben Hirschler, Reuters</SPAN><SPAN class="comments"><A href="javascript:jumpToAnchor('#PostComment')">Be the first to post a comment</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="clear"> </DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=1410272"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.canada.com/img/E833F399-60AD-441F-9D93-6CE15A858C5C" alt="Medical experts have been looking again at the healing powers of maggots, including their potential to prevent dangerous infections like MRSA." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=1410272"><H1 id="photocaption">Medical experts have been looking again at the healing powers of maggots, including their potential to prevent dangerous infections like MRSA.</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=1410272"><H2 id="photocredit"><B>Photograph by: </B>Vivek Prakash, Reuters</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=1410272"><P>LONDON (Reuters) - Putting flesh-eating maggots into open wounds may not be such a great idea after all.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=1410272"><P>They do clean wounds more quickly than normal treatment but this does not lead to faster healing, results of the world's first controlled clinical trial of maggot medicine showed on Friday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=1410272"><P>Some patients also found so-called larval therapy more painful, according to the study in the British Medical Journal.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/28F2BF22-A365-4789-A3A7-F43DA0485A47/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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