In the News
Melanin Level
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
From National Geogrqphic
Melanin, the brown pigment in the skin, acts as a natural sunscreen. It protects against UV, and populations in the tropics are darker skinned since there is more sunlight where they live. UV ages the skin, causes skin cancer, and–most significant to Jablonski and Chaplin’s work—-breaks down folate, essential vitamin B needed for cell division and producing new DNA.… continue reading
New way to deliver agents for the treatment of skin cancer
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Queen’s University scientists have hit upon a revolutionary way to deliver agents for the treatment of skin cancer. Pharmacy student Desmond Morrow working alongside Dr Paul McCarron and Dr Ryan Donnelly from the Queen’s Medical Biology Centre have demonstrated that a novel needle free jet injection device may be a potential way of eradicating ‘difficult to treat’ skin tumours.… continue reading
Sun Bath and Good Health
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
By: Bakhru
Sunlight is of prime importance for perfect health. Even school textbooks stress this basic fact. But the things we learn from textbooks are usually left behind in the schools. How useful and indeed essential, sunlight is in our life, finds no place in our thoughts.… continue reading
Is health the absence of disease?
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
It sounds like a word game, but is health the absence of disease? In other words, if you’re not sick, you must be well. If you don’t have cancer, heart disease (overtly, that is, like angina and heart attack), the flu, diarrhea, fevers, pain someplace .… continue reading
TAN Act Signed Into Law in the USA
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
President Bush signed the Tanning Accountability and Notification (TAN) Act into law Sept. 27 as part of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments of 2007. Under the terms of the law, the FDA must conduct consumer testing to determine if the current text and positioning requirements of warning labels on tanning devices provides sufficient information on the risks of using tanning equipment.… continue reading
