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ASA Member Salons File Lawsuit
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Suit filed by seven small business owners operating 68% of tanning salons in the Omaha and Lincoln markets continue reading
Tanning Beds and Sunlight as Treatments for Skin Disease
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
“Unsupervised sun exposure is a standard recommendation for some patients to obtain phototherapy. Selected use of commercial tanning beds in the treatment of dermatologic conditions may be another useful and effective treatment for those patients with an inability to access office-based or home-based phototherapy.”[ continue reading
Top Nutrition Researchers Challenge Conventional Wisdom With Recommendation for More Sun Exposure
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
A group of scientific researchers now suggests that these recommendations, which include avoiding sun exposure between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., may be less beneficial than originally thought. continue reading
Overly restrictive sun exposure warnings pose health risk, says new study
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
"These benefits are in addition to those derived from vitamin D alone and cannot be replaced by vitamin D supplements and therefore sun avoidance being recommended by the US Surgeon General, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Dermatology Association and others, is unnecessarily putting Canadians at risk." continue reading
How to Fund Obamacare? Gimmicks Like a Tanning Tax Are Not the Answer
Monday, July 13, 2015
If Obamacare is here to stay, funding for it must be addressed. The Obama administration can't use gimmicks like a tanning tax to distract from who is really going to pay for this law: policyholders who will see the cost of their insurance skyrocket.
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