In the News
Restrict tanning bed use: P.E.I. doctors
Monday, September 14, 2009
By CBC News CBC News
The Medical Society of P.E.I. wants the provincial health minister to ban the use of artificial tanning equipment for people under the age of 18. Members passed a unanimous motion to that effect on Saturday during the society’s annual general meeting in Stanhope, P.E.I.… continue reading
Radioactive Patch Could Be Option for Skin Malignancies
Monday, September 14, 2009
A nontoxic, radioactive skin patch safely and successfully treated basal cell carcinoma, one of the most common types of skin cancer. “While basal cell carcinoma is rarely fatal, it can be a painful and disfiguring disease,” explained Priyanka Gupta, a nuclear medicine technologist at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi and lead author of the study demonstrating this finding.… continue reading
The Truth About The Recent IARC Report
Monday, September 14, 2009
By Patricia E. Reykdal and Donald L. Smith
http://www.lookingfit.com/articles/the-truth-about-the-recent-iarc-report.html
The damaging and widespread headlines stating that tanning beds are “as deadly as arsenic or mustard gas” actually had nothing to do with the fact that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) changed their classification of tanning devices from Group 2A (presumed to be a human carcinogen) to Group 1 (known to be a human carcinogen).… continue reading
We do have to put a price on life
Friday, September 11, 2009
Andre Picard
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/we-do-have-to-put-a-price-on-life/article1281655/
How much is a life worth? What price can we put on extending a life for a few years, a few months or a few days? Increasingly, those are questions that, however unsettling, need to be asked, particularly in the cancer field.… continue reading
Tanning market still outpacing other areas of the economy
Friday, September 11, 2009
Headline Story From SmartTan.com
The tanning market remains divided between those who are chugging along and those whose 2009 season didn’t live up to what they hoped, but is still outperforming other sectors of the overall economy, a SmartTan.com poll conducted in early September revealed.… continue reading
