In the News
Could Vitamin D help health — and health care costs?
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Dr. Greg Plotnikoff has spent more than a decade evangelizing about the health benefits of vitamin D to his medical colleagues across the globe.
Now the Minneapolis-based internist and pediatrician is turning to corporate America, hoping his message will have new resonance amid soaring medical costs and a fragile economic recovery.
New report on perils of tanning salons
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/new-report-on-perils-of-tanning-salons/
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The title of a congressional report last month said it all: “False and Misleading Health Information Provided to Teens by the Indoor Tanning Industry.” With students already heading to tanning salons before next month’s spring break, Barbara Gilchrest, a School of Medicine professor of dermatology, is echoing the report’s warnings against bronzing on a tanning bed.… continue reading
Vitamin D and Cancer Treatment
Thursday, February 9, 2012
I had three bouts of melanoma. The first was a mole on my arm that was removed. The second was a few years later when it appeared in my lymph nodes, and the third was metastases to my brain, lungs, spleen and stomach.
… continue readingNew study suggests vitamin D deficiency linked to increased stroke risk
Thursday, February 9, 2012
On February 2nd, researchers at the University of Alabama announced that sunlight is inversely associated with stroke: the more sunlight the fewer strokes. The authors also commented on the poor wisdom of avoiding all sunlight; that is, they implied the dermatologists have done us harm.… continue reading
The truth about tanning beds is not pretty
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Are tanning beds the new tobacco? Cancer causing and poorly regulated, they may be just that. Last year the World Health Organization put indoor tanning beds in the highest cancer risk category, along with mustard gas and cigarettes.… continue reading
