A New York primary care doctor joined a growing list of health-care experts who are calling out “Sun Scare” as dangerous, instead encouraging people to embrace UV exposure as natural and intended.

“Living in Western New York is a bit …

‘Sun Scare’ leaders are twisting statistics about skin cancer in order to scare people away from sunlight.

MSNBC.com and MyHealthNewsDaily ran an article Monday claiming that young people should be afraid of indoor tanning because melanoma mortality is increasing — …

The British dermatology industry—which has produced peer-reviewed papers in the past year showing that melanoma incidence is not really increasing, but is merely an increase in the diagnosis of thinner 100 percent curable lesions—is stepping up to the plate and …

Cosmetic dermatology — which has gone from ‘Any sun exposure damages the skin’ 15 years ago to ‘UV radiation is as dangerous as plutonium’ in 2011 — may have lost its credibility with consumers who are seeing through the hyperbole …

Vitamin D is called “The Sunshine Vitamin” for a good reason — getting a suntan is widely recognized as producing 100-200 times more vitamin D than what is fortified into an 8-ounce glass of whole milk. But what many people …

The Sunlight Research Forum – a non-profit organization promoting the benefits of regular, moderate sun exposure based in The Netherlands – issued a press statement Tuesday urging the public to understand the value of building a base tan as nature’s …

Women who use sunbeds more than once a month for several decades had a 37 percent lower risk of contracting breast cancer, according to a new prospective study of nearly 50,000 Swedish women followed for 15 years — a strong …

100 percent of obese adolescent girls tested as vitamin D deficient or insufficient in study published in the May issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health — a surprising result that some researchers believe is further evidence that the best …