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Tanning bed popularity prompts Alberta cancer campaign
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Alberta launched a new skin cancer awareness campaign in response to a survey that shows tanning beds are popular among the province’s youth.
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The American Suntanning Association Argues Tanning Beds to be Safe
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
A state senator from California, Democrat Ted Lieu has urged to the Federal Trade Commission to probe the association for misguiding customers about the skin cancer risks of tanning beds. continue reading
Search for skin-cancer clues leads to jungle
Monday, March 4, 2013
White people are prone to developing melanoma, as their pale skin is vulnerable to the sun's ultraviolet rays. Yet Asians, plenty of whom also have light skin, are relatively immune to the disease.
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Are Adult Vitamin D Recommendations Too Low?
Monday, March 4, 2013
The Vitamin D Society wants to make the public aware that current vitamin D intake
recommendations for adults are low in comparison to levels prescribed for infants. After a
recent review of the IOM vitamin D recommendations the Vitamin D Society discovered that
the vitamin D dose per pound was substantially lower for adults.
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Obesity and deadliest form of skin cancer ‘have genetic link’
Monday, March 4, 2013
Scientists find gene FTO may have role in obesity and skin cancer
Study looked at DNA of 73,000 patients including 13,000 with skin cancer
Previously though illness was mainly caused by sunbathing and sunbeds
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