The Handband Blog
Medical ID guides, condition know-how and first-aid advice — written to help you and the people who look after you.
LITTLE ROCK Leading off the 4x400 relay for the U.S., Angelo Taylor settled into the starting blocks and leaned forward, hands spread. The TV camera zoomed in and his rubber bracelet reminded the worl…
How Will Bowen's purple No-Complaining wristband swept hospitals and groups. The 21-day challenge that breaks the complaint habit and how to start yours.
The chartreuse rubber bracelets have a simple saying: If you educate a girl, you educate a nation. Made by honors students at Sweet Home High School, the bands are being sold to raise funds to build a…
We 've all seen them, and many of us have worn at least one of them for a cause or two. I 'm taking about the silicone wristbands first popularized by Lance Armstrong with his Live Strong promotion. S…
LIBERTY, Mo. -- A William Jewell College student is helping the Job Seekers Network with four words printed on bracelets. The wristbands say simply, "Got Jobs? Hire Me."Keith Smith said he didn't expe…
The West Coast Eagles are preparing for a huge clash with AFL ladder leaders St Kilda this weekend but they will turn some of the focus towards another battle facing West Australians.Sunday has been d…
Wristbands emblazoned with various campaign slogans and uplifting messages of support are nothing new, but when two Florida residents came up with a simple phrase it seems to have captured the essence…
Campaigners have raised £30,000 to support families of soldiers injured and killed in battle. Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment many from the county spent a year raising the money t…
Roy Butler from Hagerstown heads to the World Transplant Games in Australia. His story, the elite competition, and what it means for transplant patients.
Nineteen-year-old Carolan DeMeuse of Marinette was hysterical when she found out her close friend Steven Drees had died from injuries he received in combat in Afghanistan. DeMeuse decided to honor Dre…
Bonnie Friedman wraps her bejeweled fingers around buzzing, zebra-patterned electric clippers and shaves Donna Johnson's hair to the scalp. "Is that part too wide?" she says with mock innocence. Johns…
A Weston middle school teacher is biking from California back east, sending dispatches from historic sites and showing his students that careful planning pays off. Where in the world is Mr. Giraldo? T…