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Unit trying to change teen tanning attitudes

Monday, June 22, 2009
Lindsay Daily Post – Lindsay,Canada The Haliburton-Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit is attempting to change teenagers’ attitude towards tanning. In a press release, health unit officials spoke about a new program in cooperation with local high schools. Posters with a piece of a hamburger under a heat lamp that read, “You’re not a piece of meat.… continue reading

Panel wants teens banned from tanning beds

Monday, June 22, 2009
Tanning beds should be off limits to people under age 18, British health officials studying cancer said Friday. A growing number of British teenage girls reportedly are using tanning beds, leaving themselves at risk of melanoma, the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment said.… continue reading

Stay Informed Stay Alive!

Monday, June 22, 2009
(NaturalNews) This is a special report the FDA doesn’t want you to read. In fact, this is the story that the corporate “leaders” of the natural health products industry don’t want you to read, either. Why? Because they’ve all been hijacked by Big Pharma interests, and they no longer represent real natural medicine like the kind revealed in this story.… continue reading

Dermatologists issue warning about tanning beds

Friday, June 19, 2009
Nancy Kelly According to two St. John’s dermatologists, three Canadians a week will die of skin cancer this year, and tanning beds are part of the reason. Dr. Ian Landells and Dr. Kamal Ohson say tanning beds admit massive doses of ultraviolet (UV) radiation so that a 20-minute session is like spending hours in the sun unprotected in terms of the damage to your skin.… continue reading

Future of Cancer Incidence in the United States: Burdens Upon an Aging, Changing Nation

Friday, June 19, 2009
Benjamin D. Smith, Grace L. Smith, Arti Hurria, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Thomas A. Buchholz Full text here: http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/reprint/27/17/2758 Purpose: By 2030, the United States’ population will increase to approximately 365 million, including 72 million older adults (age e 65 years) and 157 million minority individuals.… continue reading

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