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An Australian study has shown that the amount of vitamin D you need to be replete in the sunshine vitamin may be more than 8 times higher than the 600 IU the Institute of Medicine declared last fall.

A research …

The sunless tanning trend has become a large part of salon business over the past several years. Yet, many salons aren’t utilizing this service, or aren’t using it to its full potential. Read April’s Smart Tan Magazine main feature, “Full-Throttle …

Mayo Dermatology’s baseless attack on indoor tanning this week is predicated entirely on one small Minnesota county that averaged just 1 melanoma a year in women 18-39 in the 1970s — as small a sample as is statistically possible for …

Dermatology itself slammed the Mayo Clinic’s one-county skin cancer registry as not representing the rest of the nation — a point many in the American news media did not pick up on Monday when reports about Mayo’s latest one-county skin …

Tanned skin has been a popular accessory for over 80 years. Have any of you ever wondered why? Autumn Whitefield-Madrano is a writer for The Beheld, a blog examining our concepts of beauty. In her blog, she reviews the history …

The Mayo Clinic Department of Dermatology on Monday published a study in its own research journal suggesting that melanoma incidence is increasing “especially” in young women and that indoor tanning is to blame — a flat-out deception that isn’t supported …

We’ve talked quite a bit about improving management skills, so this time we’re going to discuss employee self-management. Employees want to work in an ideal environment with great people and have no problems arise – which, honestly, can only happen …

Almost half of the 54,000 children who received check-ups at a Vietnamese nutrition clinic last year were afflicted with rickets because health authorities and parents have advised parents to keep their children out of the sun, a Vietnamese news service …