In the News
Does sunscreen save skin — or damage it?
Thursday, February 5, 2009
By Laurel Naversen Geraghty
I was no different from most college students: During spring breaks, my friends and I applied our competitive streaks — we were teammates on Brown University’s swimming and diving team — to beach tanning. Who could get the darkest over a week in the Caribbean?… continue reading
UV tooth bleaching useless, dangerous
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Tom Barlow
British scientists have released results of a study concluding that UV light-enhanced tooth bleaching is not only ineffective, but dangerous. The study, in the journal Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, found that exposing one’s choppers to the UV lamp exposed sensitive mouth skin and eyes to four times as much skin-damaging UV radiation as the same duration in the midday sun.… continue reading
Genetic Study Shows Direct Link Between Vitamin D and MS
Thursday, February 5, 2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Feb. 5, 2009) – MS Society of Canada funded researchers have found evidence that a direct interaction between vitamin D and a common genetic variant alters the risk of developing multiple sclerosis. The research, to be published on February 6 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, suggests that vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and the early years may increase the risk of the offspring developing MS later in life.… continue reading
Summer babies ‘tall and strong’
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Children who are born in late summer or early autumn are often taller and stronger than peers born in spring and winter, a large study suggests. The results from the Children of the 90s project – which involved 7,000 youngsters – says the reason may lie in their mothers’ exposure to the sun.… continue reading
You can beat the winter blahs
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
By SHARON LEM, SUN MEDIA
Three groundhogs confirm it — the deep freeze will last for at least another six weeks. Wiarton Willie, Punxsutawney Phil of Pennsylvania and Shubenacadie Sam of Nova Scotia — North America’s leading authorities on predicting an early spring — all saw their shadows yesterday.… continue reading
