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GrassrootsHealth Launches Worldwide Call to Action on Vitamin D

Monday, April 5, 2010
Scientific Conference on April 9 draws global medical experts to disseminate critical new research about “the Sunshine Vitamin” SAN DIEGO, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — GrassrootsHealth (GRH), a public health research organization working to get Vitamin D research from science into practice, announces it will host a landmark seminar April 9 in La Jolla, California to unveil the latest significant research on Vitamin D.
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Cheap holidays ‘skin cancer link’

Monday, April 5, 2010
The advent of cheap package holidays in the 1970s has led to a “generational shift” in the rates of deadly skin cancer, a charity has warned. People now in their 60s and 70s are more than five times more likely to be diagnosed with malignant melanoma than their parents were, figures show.… continue reading

1,200 IU of vitamin D daily may prevent flu

Monday, April 5, 2010
The reason why flu season breaks out every winter and then vanishes every summer has been a mystery long puzzling medical researchers.
Now, Japanese doctors may have found an answer to the enigma – low levels of vitamin D during the dark winter months.
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SUNBEDS BAN FOR UNDER 18S in UK

Thursday, April 1, 2010
By Victoria Fletcher
CHILDREN under 18 will be banned from sunbeds after MPs approved new measures following concern about the rising number of skin cancer victims.
The law will prevent children from using tanning machines anywhere in England and Wales. It will also outlaw thousands of coin-operated tanning booths that are unstaffed.
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FDA Panel: Restrict Tanning Beds

Monday, March 29, 2010
By Daniel J. DeNoon
March 25, 2010 — The FDA should keep children and teens from using tanning beds — or at least make sure their parents have signed a consent form warning of tanning-bed dangers, an FDA advisory panel today recommended.
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