“There has been nothing definitive on the relationship between vitamin D and cancer survival. There isn’t even agreement on how much vitamin D to recommend. What we do know is that UV rays are carcinogens — they cause cancer. Period. …

Dermatology leaders — unable to convince people to stop tanning by overstating the risks associated with UV overexposure — should turn to another fear-based tactic: Showing people pictures of wrinkled skin and claiming tanning will lead to severe wrinkling.

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Nearly three out of four tanning businesses say media coverage of last July’s International Agency on Research on Cancer report – coverage which erroneously compared UV exposure to cigarette smoking and arsenic – has hurt their business operations. That’s the …

Business Week covered a study this week showing that 70 percent of pregnant women, and thus their soon-to-be-born children, are not getting the vitamin D they need — almost certainly because they don’t get enough sun exposure.

“In general, vitamin …

A skin care web site this week pointed out one huge hole in the widely contested suggestion that UV exposure is the cause of melanoma skin cancer: indoor workers get melanoma more often than their outdoor-working counterparts. And a peer-reviewed …

Two studies released this week show that higher vitamin D levels benefit elderly people — with one study showing that those with higher vitamin D levels are less likely to suffer from depression and another study saying that elderly need …

Just more than half of tanning retailers say their business was the same or better this April than it was in April 2009, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted the first 10 days of May — another indication that the …

“The problem with melanoma, as with many other branches of contemporary clinical research, is that it is based on circumstantial evidence obtained from epidemiological studies rather than an understanding of the pathology. Melanoma is an illustration of the muddle introduced …