It comes straight out of Marketing 101: The most important time to pour resources into marketing is when business is the slowest. A salon that can survive and thrive in bad times will come out of them in a much …

A Florida state senator’s absolute statement about indoor tanning is indicative of how the Cosmetic Dermatology industry’s lobbying groups have upped the rhetoric about UV exposure without the research to back up their statements.

“The scientific evidence is overwhelming: Tanning …

The botox injection industry has 2.5 million reasons to lobby why a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning makes more sense to them than a 5 percent tax on botox injections and other cosmetic surgeries: That’s the astounding number of …

More than 9 out of 10 indoor tanning business owners believe that ‘base tans’ achieved in a tanning salon do protect indoor tanning enthusiasts from outdoor sunburn, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in early March.

According …

The most important attack cells in the body’s immune system — T-cells that fight off infections — rely on vitamin D to do their jobs, Danish researchers reported this week in the journal Nature Immunology.

“The researchers found that immune …

A Wilmington News-Journal report published last week best-expressed the weakness of the data used by a World Health Organization working group last summer in a controversial report used to suggest that tanning is on par with cigarettes as a risk. …

A Delaware newspaper on Thursday reported what the rest of the world’s media failed to correctly identify last summer: That the World Health Organization’s report alleging a connection between tanning and melanoma really had very little bite beyond it’s bark.…

JACKSON, MICHIGAN — March 3, 2010 — An International Smart Tan Network survey of 6,881 indoor tanning clients conducted in January 2010 revealed that 11 percent of tanning clients say a doctor referred them to a tanning salon for therapeutic …