After nearly eight decades as a family-run fixture on Cumberland Hill Road, Pepin Lumber is closing its doors for good around ...

After nearly eight decades as a family-run fixture on Cumberland Hill Road, Pepin Lumber is closing its doors for good around ...

A familiar yellow silicone wristband winks from her wrist, one of almost 100 million given away or sold for $1 by the Lance Armstrong Foundation, renamed Livestrong in 2012 after Armstrong fell ...

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, said Shakespeare’s Henry IV, but the king of cycling, Lance Armstrong, wasn’t content with his athletic garland, he had the rest of us wearing ...

“Silicone wristbands absorb chemicals very similar to how a human absorbs them,” said Penelope Quintana, Ph.D. MPH. Dr. Quintana is a professor with San Diego State’s School of Public Health.

Withings outlines that “Our wristbands are either made of FKM, silicone, leather, recycled PET or stainless steel.” As we’ve highlighted, FKM rubber is a PFAS-related material.

The team of scientists examined 22 smartwatch wristbands from different brands and sold at various prices. The ones that cost more than $30 contained more fluorine than those less than $15. The ...

When it comes to the wristbands, researchers found they had a median concentration of PFAS that was about four times higher than that found in cosmetics. In a study published in 2023, researchers ...

To avoid the dangers associated with these potentially toxic wristbands, the study’s co-author Alyssa Wicks recommended buying lower-cost wristbands made from silicone instead.

Certain pricier styles of smartwatch wristband may not just be helping Americans stay fit — they may be exposing unsuspecting wearers to a hefty dose of “forever chemicals,” a new study… ...

Anderson: Well, that’s sort of another feature of the of wearing an individual silicone wristband, because the previously, how we would determine what your chemical exposures would be is, for ...

The wristbands look like those you might find at a souvenir shop: bendy loops of silicone, in the color of your choice. But scientists are increasingly using the bands to measure exposure to toxic ...