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Pill slows spread of skin cancer in half of cases
Friday, January 21, 2011
About 2,000 people in the UK die from skin cancer each year
A new drug for skin cancer can slow the spread of the disease in half of patients, thereby extending their lives, a study says.… continue readingDermatology Group Misleading Public About Vitamin D: Vitamin D Council
Thursday, January 20, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ – The nation’s largest dermatology organization is deliberately misleading the American public about vitamin D according to the Vitamin D Council, a non-profit group dedicated to ending vitamin D deficiency.
… continue readingGovernment’s Vitamin D Panel Actually Did Sunbeds a Favor
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The controversial panel from the government-commissioned Institute of Medicine that Nov. 30 oddly declared that North America does not have a vitamin D deficiency problem actually did those who believe in sunbeds a backwards favor.… continue reading
Good for New Brunswick, bad for British Columbia – Deputy chief medical officer of health swapping coasts
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Less than two years after being recruited to New Brunswick from Australia to serve as the province’s deputy chief medical officer of health, Dr. Paul Van Buynder is packing his bags.… continue reading
Did Canadian (Doctors) Lie To Push Tan Ban?
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
“There is no inherent, unique benefit. It is cosmetic.” — Dr. Richard Stanwick, the Vancouver Island health official who led the crusade to outlaw indoor tanning for those under 18 in the greater Victoria area in British Columbia, Canada last week, as quoted in a www.Canada.com
