Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Thousands of news reports continue to suggest that “sun tanning is as dangerous as tobacco” because UV and cigarettes are both considered carcinogens. But the comparison is a blatant misrepresentation.

1. Smoker’s risk of lung cancer: 15 percent — or 2,000

Urban Sun will be celebrating its eighth anniversary by hosting a red carpet event to benefit the American Heart Association. The event is scheduled to take place February 18-20 and will have plenty of ways to support the San Diego …

When a newspaper reporter bothers to explore the math behind dermatology’s biggest anti-tan slam, the numbers don’t add up.

“Even the IARC’s strongest study — which followed more than 100,000 women over eight years — found that less than three-tenths …

“The problem is that vitamin D is not really a vitamin, it’s a hormone. If your thyroid hormone level was low, you’d gain 20, 30, or more pounds in weight, your blood pressure would skyrocket, you’d lose your hair, become …

The Telegraph is reporting that players from the Manchester United soccer team are using cutting-edge technology to create more effective training programs. . One of those cutting edge technologies is ‘vitamin D beds.’ The beds, which are similar to sunbeds, …

The London (Ontario) Free Press this weekend reported to its readers that suntanning is an addictive behavior like smoking or drinking and repeated many other misstatements regarding research about indoor tanning. Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy writes the following …

On January 31 a U.S. District judge ruled the new health care law unconstitutional. Now, three senators have introduced a bill to postpone implementation of the law until further litigation is settled, according to the Kansas City Business Journal.

Two …

One of the world’s top supermodels has stirred up a storm in the cosmetic dermatology and pharmaceutical world by publicly calling sunscreen ‘poison’ and saying that she does not use it. “I cannot put this poison on my skin,” Brazilian …