News Archive for July, 2008

ABC News on Wednesday perpetuated the false allegation that melanoma incidence is increasing fastest in the teenage population – a story that has rambled around the media for two weeks since the publication of a controversial letter to the editor …

Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain — a fair-skinned, 71-year-old white man who spent five-and-a-half years as a young man subjected to severe sunburns as a prisoner of war in tropical Vietnam — this week had another suspicious lesion removed and …

Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain — a fair-skinned, 71-year-old white man who spent five-and-a-half years as a young man subjected to severe sunburns as a prisoner of war in tropical Vietnam — this week had another suspicious lesion removed and …

If you still don’t think the $35 billion “sun scare” industry affects the editorial integrity of magazines that accept their advertising dollars, look no further than the June issue of Real Simple magazine. It’s an excellent example of how “sun …

Two of JK North America’s premier bed manufacturers, Ergoline and Soltron, have created a stand-up revolution that is taking the industry by storm. The company offers some insight into how to choose the right units for each salon and why …

Last month we began to answer a question about disabled people being allowed to bring service animals into tanning facilities. A woman demanded that her seizure alert dogs be allowed in the tanning room. Learning last month that a person …

In the salon it is always important to try and sell that customer a new package before the existing one expires. Obviously, that isn’t always possible. There are many customers who are not going to tan year round for one …

Khalil Ramal, Liberal MPP for London Fanshaws area in southern Ontario, introduced Bill 83 – an act to help prevent skin cancer. (Actually, the bill will actually stop teen tanning in Ontario.) The bill in its Explanatory Note says: “The …