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More than half of indoor tanning businesses say the number of clients walking through their doors is up in 2011, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in late April and early May — another sign that tanning market leaders are …

From free upgrade sessions to “boobie cookie” sales, hundreds of indoor tanning businesses are upping the ante this year in taking part in D-Feat Breast Cancer Month, finding more and more interesting ways to incorporate the fund-raising/grassroots awareness promotion into …

“Dr. Kendra says unlike natural sunlight, the light from indoor tanning doesn’t produce a pigment that protects the skin from UV rays naturally, and it doesn’t stimulate the production of vitamin D in the body.” — Public News Service press …

Registration is open for the world’s largest indoor tanning convention—Smart Tan Downtown Oct. 14-16 in Downtown Nashville. Full conference and trade show details are posted on the official convention web site, www.SmartTanDowntown.com, which is also accessible from the …

The group most affected by melanoma — men over age 50 — are once again being ignored by the American Academy of Dermatology in lieu of rhetorical anti-tanning warnings on the group’s self-proclaimed ‘Melanoma Monday’ campaign, which kicks off today.…

A Georgia salon owner — who had only been open for business for three weeks — found safety by hiding with her two daughters inside a closed sunbed as a killer tornado ripped apart the rest of her salon, and …

The Alliance for Natural Health — a Washington DC-based national consumer group fighting for all-things natural — has collected nearly 50,000 signatures on a petition urging Congress to appoint a new scientific panel to review vitamin D after last November’s …

What’s the most under-rated book on vitamin D produced from the sun?

“The Sunlight Solution” is written by a medical historian who chastises those who continue to cling to sun-phobic behavior that so clearly is denying our bodies the benefits …