In the News
Low vitamin D levels tied to higher blood pressure
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
CREDIT: Kier Gilmour/Ottawa Citizen
NEW YORK – As blood levels of vitamin D drop, blood pressure increases, according to findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). The current analysis from NHANES III, which was conducted between 1988 and 1994, involved 12,644 adults in the U.S.… continue reading
SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT? – PART ONE
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
This summer, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has become embroiled in a scandal over its advertising practices. Based upon input from various focus groups, the ACS decided to place ads in 15 national magazines strongly implying that skin cancer is a fatal disease but that these deaths can be prevented by mass screening.… continue reading
Daily use of sunscreen may lower cancer risk later in life
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
By Katie Bird
A long-term Australian cohort study suggests that daily application of sunscreen may lower the risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma years after treatment has stopped. The results from the follow-up period of the Nambour Trial by the Queensland Institute of Medical Research were announced at 11th World Congress of Cancers of the Skin, last month.… continue reading
From industry castoff to potential medicine
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
By Robert Cooke, Boston Globe Correspondent
By poking through thousands of industrial chemicals, scientists report that they have found a new drug that, for the first time, improves the grim outlook for patients with the most dangerous form of skin cancer.… continue reading
Sunscreen safety & effectiveness
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Eyewitness News (New York – WABC) – It is one of those must-have summer items: sunscreen. But for something so important, there are no performance standards for sunscreen. Now, there is a new push for FDA standards to address how much protection sunscreens really offer.… continue reading
