In the News
Sunlight, vitamin D and asthma in children
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
A current study shows African-American children with asthma are significantly more likely to have low levels of vitamin D than healthy African-American children.[1] Vitamin D deficiency in children with asthma was twenty times more likely than in healthy children.… continue reading
Indoor Tanning Beds Increase Risk of Melanoma
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
American Association for Cancer Research to Host Press Conference on Findings
• Risk higher than fourfold with some devices
• FDA currently considering a ban on indoor tanning beds among teens PHILADELPHIA — Use of indoor tanning beds increases risk of melanoma between twofold and fourfold depending on the device and length of time indoor tanning is used, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.… continue reading
• Risk higher than fourfold with some devices
• FDA currently considering a ban on indoor tanning beds among teens PHILADELPHIA — Use of indoor tanning beds increases risk of melanoma between twofold and fourfold depending on the device and length of time indoor tanning is used, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.… continue reading
Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Andrew Schneider Senior Public Health Correspondent
AOL News
WASHINGTON (May 24) — Almost half of the 500 most popular sunscreen products may actually increase the speed at which malignant cells develop and spread skin cancer because they contain vitamin A or its derivatives, according to an evaluation of those products released today.
Is there really a skin cancer epidemic?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
By Will Boggs, MD, Reuters
NEW YORK – Is melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer, on the rise, as is often reported? Maybe not, says a new study: The “melanoma epidemic” may simply represent a change in how doctors are diagnosing the disease.
Did Melanoma Researchers ‘Reverse Engineer’ Their Findings?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
SOURCE: Smart Tan
Anti-Tanning Lobbying Group Downplayed Key Conflicting Information, According to Smart Tan
JACKSON, MI–(Marketwire – May 25, 2010) – A University of Minnesota advocacy group may have “reverse-engineered” a study to bolster its own pre-existing anti-indoor tanning crusade, failing to properly cite the significance of conflicting data within its own paper, downplaying confounding data that opposed its conclusions and failing to disclose the conflict-of-interest of its own anti-tanning advocacy efforts.… continue reading
