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A new University of California-San Diego study has established 50 ng/ml as the target vitamin D blood level for diabetes prevention, the study’s authors reported this week.

Dr. Cedric Garland, the lead author, told the press that increasing vitamin D …

Social sharing website Pinterest earlier this week added features geared towards businesses, as described in the Mashable.com article “Pinterest Introduces Business Accounts and Tools.”

The ability to create business accounts on Pinterest will, for the first time, allow you to …

The internet’s most-popular health education web site this week reported that genetic factors – and not UV exposure – explain why red heads are at a higher risk for melanoma.

Mercola.com, the site for health education guru Dr. Joseph Mercola, …

More than nine out of 10 tanning businesses offer some sort of spray tanning service to their clients, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in November.

According to the poll, just over half of all salons have some form of …

By Jerry Marfut

When it comes to training and scheduling, I have learned some very painful lessons. I missed opportunities in who I trained on what, and who I scheduled when and with whom.

In my early years of business, …

A British press report  added to mounting coverage of the thought that regular sun exposure reduces the risk for many forms of cancer — flying in the face of what dermatology and sunscreen industry lobbying groups continue to report.

“Scientists …

The head of Australia’s Cancer Council — which generates its revenues directly from the sale of chemical sunscreens — has been slammed by Aussie readers in Australia’s “Conversation” web site after he penned a column entitled, “Monday’s medical myth: we’re …

Rectify negative customer experiences, and hold onto valuable clients, by utilizing the process described in the article “5 Steps to Handling a Customer Complaint” from Inc.com. No matter how hard you try to keep all your customers happy, there will …