She applied a bandage to my hurt finger.

But, hey, at least it's hygienic.

Sterile strips may also be used to cover the sutures for up to a week.

This is live HIV virus at Harvard Medical School, who is working with the U.S. Government to develop sterilizing immunity.

Tweaking the law's clearly not good enough, and tort reform, which is a great idea, lowers your cost if you're a businessperson, but it's like a Band Aid on this gaping wound of distrust.

Actions speak louder than words. All too often, policymakers treat public diplomacy as a bandage that can be applied after damage is done by other instruments.

When the filter is placed in a sterile petri dish and saturated with an appropriate medium, growth of the desired organisms is encouraged, while that of other organisms is suppressed.

It used to be, two, three hundred years ago, that a lawn was a symbol of prestige, and so it was only the very rich that could keep these green actually, deserts they're totally sterile.

The use of unsterilized instruments, unhealed or open wounds or other complications arising in the process facilitates entry of the HIV virus into the body.

These are ambitious hopes, but even if the UN Security Council adopts and implements a resolution that would lead to such an eventual solution, it will provide just another band aid and temporary relief.

We've talked a lot about compassion the last couple of days, and what's happening really is that people are unable quite to bring themselves to put in good sexual and reproductive health services for sex workers, unable quite to be giving out needles to junkies.

In this technique, a drop of the culture on the end of a thin, sterile loop of wire, sometimes known as an inoculator, is streaked across the surface of the agar leaving organisms behind, a higher number at the beginning of the streak and a lower number at the end.