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Know the Facts About Melanoma

Monday, May 3, 2010

SmartTan.com

 
The North American dermatology community typically targets the month of May to discuss melanoma awareness. And while sun awareness and sunburn prevention are important topics, dermatology’s melanoma awareness campaigns generally ignore important points. There arguably is more misinformation about skin cancer than any other form of cancer, and most of it involves distorting the nature of skin cancer’s complex relationship with sun exposure.
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Study Finds Low Vitamin D Levels in Most People With HIV

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Up to 52 percent of people with HIV in a Swiss study had dangerously low vitamin D levels. The study, published in the May 15 issue of AIDS, also found that people taking non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) or the drug Viread (tenofovir) were more likely to have low vitamin D levels.… continue reading

Let the sunshine in

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
 John Naish
 
“Sunlight is like a good champagne,” wrote Sir Henry Gauvain, an eminent British surgeon in the 1920s. “It invigorates and stimulates; indulged in to excess, it intoxicates and poisons.” Sadly in the UK in recent years our attitude to the sun has leant distinctly towards the latter state.
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Dermatologist In Favor of Suntanning

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

SmartTan.com

 
“Excessive (sun) avoidance and UV screening is a danger because it does not allow a tan, nature’s own sun block, to develop and as a result exposure is likely to cause sun-burn. The dogma, now fossilised in print, is that any tan is a sign of skin damage.
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Milk Is America’s Top Source of Much-Needed Vitamin D

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
 
 
WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ — Experts agree ? America needs more vitamin D. It’s one more reason to grab another glass of milk, according to new research presented at the Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim, California. Milk is the primary source of vitamin D in the American diet, supplying nearly half of all of the much-needed vitamin D.
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