Now this is my kinda journalism: “Age-Old Cures, like the Maggot, Get U.S. Hearing“.

Any article with sentences like

      Thus, the agency decided that maggots and leeches were devices, Mr. Melkerson said.

and

      “I was afraid he would wake up suddenly and see a leech stuck to

his hand,” Ms. Combs said. Josh later did just that, with another

leech, which he named Fred.

kicks ass.