I feel that future patients with human botfly larvae infection would be best dealt with by going directly to minor surgery to remove the living larvae and to have the space occupied by them cleaned ...

Open heart surgery is a medical procedure where a heart surgeon cuts your chest open to easily access the heart and fix any problems with it. About 2 million people undergo open heart surgery ...

Addressing clinicians, Chancey differentiated NWS from other obligate myiasis flies like sheep ked and horse bot fly. Compared with human bot fly larvae, for instance, NWS larvae are much smaller ...

(Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) Doctors consider Mohs surgery the best treatment for two of the most common types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).

Experts from Duke Cancer Institute discuss the creation of individualized management plans to transition patients from oncologist to primary care physician. Beyond Cancer: A Multidisciplinary ...

Head lice affect more than 100 million people worldwide annually. Permethrin (1% formulation) is efficacious but resistance is emerging. Malathion (0.5% formulation) is an alternative, but ...

Now, for the creepy details from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service senior program specialist Wizzie Brown. Myiasis is essentially an infestation of maggots. The insect involved is usually a type of ...

Bariatric surgery is a life-altering experience. No matter which weight loss surgery you choose, the procedure is expensive and will require that you make big changes to your lifestyle. As with any ...

Also known as lens replacement surgery, cataract surgery is a routine treatment for cataract, or the clouding of the eye’s lens. In the procedure, a surgeon makes a small incision in the cornea of the ...

When you are facing Mohs surgery for skin cancer, you may be concerned about effectively addressing skin cancer, but also the impact of the procedure on your appearance. With both goals in mind we ...

The pain completely resolved postprocedure and the recovery has been uneventful. The botfly is native to Central and South America; all documented cases of D hominis myiasis had recently been to the ...

Surgery is a procedure in which incision and physical manipulation are used to treat a patient with an injury or a disease. The patient's tissues are cut during this technique to permit the ...