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Vitamin D: The Super Nutrient

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
When you hear about wheelchair-bound patients with kidney disease and associated bone disease getting up and walking again, you pay attention. Discovering that psoriasis can be improved and that malignant cancer cells can be destroyed, you want to know more. What made the difference?… continue reading

Sun-safe pool policies effective at work

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Interventions in the workplace may be effective for reducing sun exposure and improving sun protective behaviors of outdoor workers, U.S. researchers suggest. Dawn M. Hall and colleagues at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta studied data collected from the Pool Cool skin cancer prevention program to analyze the associations among the pool environment, social norms and outdoor lifeguards’ and aquatic instructors’ sun protection habits and sunburns in 2001 and 2002.… continue reading

Caffeine May Offer Some Skin Cancer Protection

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay News) — Past studies have suggested that caffeine might offer some protection from skin cancer, and new research may explain why. “We have found what we believe to be the mechanism by which caffeine is associated with decreased skin cancer,” said lead researcher Dr.… continue reading

Vegetable-based drug could inhibit melanoma

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Penn State Gavin Robertson, Ph.D. Hershey, Pa. — Compounds extracted from green vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage could be a potent drug against melanoma, according to cancer researchers. Tests on mice suggest that these compounds, when combined with selenium, target tumors more safely and effectively than conventional therapy.… continue reading

Innovative Health Product Company Launches Luxury Sunscreen Free of Harmful Chemicals

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
(MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — A.I. Specialty Healthcare Ltd., an innovative leading health and lifestyle product development company, is pleased to announce the launch of its medically safe, chemical free sunblock, Azur(R) Advanced Pro-Cellular Sunscreen. Azur(R) is the first chemically inert non-endocrine disrupting natural sunscreen designed to protect sun lovers, children and those concerned with their health, against the harmful rays of the sun without the additional long-term risk of cancer from the sunscreen itself.… continue reading

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