Exclusive to Center Parcs, the Adventure Nets course also includes TAG Active technology, where guests will be able to use a wristband to ‘tag’ beacons around the course and play TAG games such as ...

The fact that we have a connection with this band, and that we have a connection through the institution that I run, it’s ...

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.

One wristband sample was even higher, at more than 16,000 parts per billion. The researchers had never before seen PFA concentrations at this level “for any wearable consumer product applied to ...

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, ...

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 ...