In the News
Light goes out on tanning salons
Thursday, October 1, 2009
DANIELLA MILETIC
http://www.theage.com.au/national/light-goes-out-on-tanning-salons-20090929-gb3v.html
THE number of tanning solariums in Melbourne has plummeted in the past three years, with tougher legislation and consumers’ heightened fear of skin cancer causing more than half of the city’s sunbed salons to close down. A new audit of the industry has revealed a dramatic decrease in the number of solariums in Australian capital cities, dropping from 406 to 278, or almost a third, since 2006.… continue reading
Less Severe Melanoma Linked with Higher Levels of Vitamin D
Thursday, October 1, 2009
http://www.skininc.com/skinscience/physiology/62572797.html
Potentially arguing the case for people’s needfor more vitamin D, a recent study has shown melanoma patients whose bodies contain higher levels of the vitamin typically have less severe forms of the cancer. Higher levels of vitamin D are linked to less severe, less deadly melanoma lesions in people with skin cancer, new research suggests.… continue reading
Fabutan Sun Tan Studios Kicks Off 8th Annual ‘Ray of Hope’ Campaign for Breast Cancer Research
Thursday, October 1, 2009
CALGARY, Oct. 1 /CNW/ – During October, Fabutan Sun Studios is asking its customers to give a Ray of Hope to the one-in-nine Canadian women who are diagnosed with breast cancer. Each October, Fabutan studios across Canada work together to help support the Vitamin D Society’s fight against this disease: the fundraiser coincides with the start of Breast Cancer Awareness month.… continue reading
Vitamin D’s role in preventing asthma studied in pregnant women
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
By Beth Miller and Diane Duke Williams
http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/14752.html
A group of pregnant women who have asthma or allergies will get extra vitamin D as part of a study to determine if the vitamin can prevent their children from developing asthma. Washington University School of Medicine in St.… continue reading
Melanoma on the Rise, or Is It Just Diagnoses?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
In recent years there has been a sharp rise in reported cases of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. But a British study has found evidence that the epidemic may be due at least in part to “diagnostic drift,” a growing tendency to identify and treat benign lesions as malignant cancers.… continue reading
