News Archive for May, 2010
IARC Report Damaged Most in Tanning
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 …
Pregnant Women Don’t Get Enough Sun
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 Big Hole in the UV-Skin Cancer Case
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 …
Vitamin D Good for the Elderly
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 …
Tanning Market Producing Mixed Results
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 …
Changing attitudes toward UV
“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 …
Journalists Figure Out Anti-Tan Lie
Anti-tanning pundits are conspicuously exaggerating risks associated with indoor tanning beds by failing to properly identify the absolute weakness of the data they cite, a group representing 1,100 U.S. health care journalists published in a column to its members May …
Putting the Sun in Perspective?
A landmark public health report outlining ways to reduce environmental cancer risks is slamming chemicals used in daily applications as an unrecognized problem and has put what is arguably a balanced and downplayed message on UV exposure angering some …
