In one form or another, bandages and dressings have likely been in use since prehistoric times, with plant materials and strips of animal hide serving the purpose initially and, later, fabrics. Early writings from Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece, and...

A bandage is a piece of material used either to support a medical device such as a dressing or splint, or on its own to provide support to the body. Bandages are available in a wide range of types, from generic cloth strips, to specialised shaped...

They stick. They stretch. They soothe your tots. They're tough, clear, rubbery, gooey, round, winged, squiggly and hour-glassed. They're Disney-fied, tattoo-like and glow-in-the-dark.And they're waiting for you in the bandage aisle.The adhesive bandage market now explodes with a dizzying array of new products, advanced technology...

There are no empty hospital beds in Somalia's bloodstained capital, and barely enough bandages to patch up the wounded. Even bottles of medicine are running dry.But patients kept pouring in Monday _ and they were the lucky ones, having survived another day of bullets and...

For Earle Ensign Dickson, inventing the Band-Aid brand adhesive bandage was a labor of love.Yet even he could not have foreseen that Band-Aids would become one of the most successful consumer brands in marketing history.Earle Dickson (1892-1961) married his sweetheart, Josephine Frances Knight, on Dec....

Drug-resistant staph infections have spread to the urban poor, rising almost seven-fold in recent years in some Chicago neighborhoods, a new study finds.Researchers said the crowded living conditions of public housing and jails may speed up the person-to-person spread of infection.The superbugs, first seen mainly...