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“Sunlight is one source of vitamin D.” — Dr. Jennifer Stein, assistant professor of dermatology at New York University, commenting in an ABC News report Tuesday on a new study alleging that higher vitamin D levels are associated with higher …

On August 20, 2011, Coconut Tan and Spa will be hosting a canned food drive called Tan for Cans. The event will be held at the Elkhart, Ind. and Edwardsburg, Mich. Coconut Tan and Spa locations, where patrons are asked …

Smart Tan Downtown was featured briefly on the Style Network’s reality show ‘Giuliana and Bill’ last week, as the show’s star, entrepreneur and author Bill Rancic, was the keynote speaker at Smart Tan’s 2010 annual convention.

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“Attendees might recall …

Social media is quickly becoming the biggest marketing platform for small business. Still, even though most social media sites are free to use and easy to operate, businesses are still hesitant to jump on the social media bandwagon – this …

Another research project is attempting to confuse humanity’s natural and intended attraction to UV in sunlight and sunlamps with unnatural chemical addictions. The New York Times on Friday ran a story headlined, “How Tanning Changes the Brain” covering the latest …

Press reports Thursday erroneously alleged that actor George Hamilton was treated in July for skin cancer, misrepresenting the fact that Hamilton instead had non-cancerous benign lesions removed by a dermatologist.

“It was not cancer,” Hamilton’s publicist, Jeffrey Lane, was quoted …

A study links low vitamin D in young girls with early menstruation, which is a risk factor for a host of health problems for teen girls as well as women later in life, according to a report released today by …

A study led by New Zealand epidemiologists suggests that dermatology-led efforts to scare young people about skin cancer may actually be causing a decline in skin cancer awareness in older people who are most likely to get the disease.

“Anecdotally, …