The iCares bandage uses innovative microfluidic components, sensors, and machine learning to sample and analyze wounds and provide data to help patients and caregivers make treatment decisions.

But they tend to be more expensive than regular bandages. Which of these bandages have you used before?

Caltech professor of medical engineering Wei Gao and his colleagues are envisioning a smart bandage of the future-a "lab on ...

scroll to it and left-click to apply the bandage to your wounds. Your health should restore over time as you use the bandage.

Bottom line. In wet, potentially dirty conditions, "it would be nice to use a waterproof bandage for a little bit of extra protection," says Rich O'Brien, M.D., a spokesman for the American ...

Caltech professor of medical engineering Wei Gao and his colleagues are envisioning a smart bandage of the future—a "lab on ...