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The state of New York put new regulations on the indoor tanning business community into effect on Tuesday.

According to the state’s Web site, the new rules require teens ages 14 to 18 to have parental consent before using a …

The University of Minnesota study published this week in the Archives of Dermatology attempts to build a case that no one is getting the message that too much UV is a bad thing and that indoor tanning is to blame …

Have you ever noticed that fast food chains like McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy’s all use similar color schemes? There’s a reason for that; the colors red, yellow and blue all make consumers feel a certain way.

KISSmetrics, a marketing …

A trio of articles in the new Archives of Dermatology, written by authors who have conducted political lobbying for the dermatology industry, are attempting to suggest that most people who use indoor tanning equipment are not aware that UV overexposure …

Surveillance video released this week by police shows a tanning salon client who bravely grabbed a hand gun from a would-be tanning salon robber in a south-side Chicago suburb Dec. 11, shooting the robber dead in the salon’s reception area.…

A consortium of British public health groups has done an about-face, recommending that British citizens go out and get non-burning levels of mid-day sun to make sufficient vitamin D.

“Going out in the midday sun without sunscreen is good for …

Cheri Cosgrove of Tanworld has conducted and released the results of a survey examining tanners’ knowledge of eye protection. The survey asked participants about their knowledge of UV exposure and long term eye damage, if they used eye protection during …

Indoor tanning clients have 90 percent higher vitamin D blood level scores as compared to non-tanners — levels that are close to what outdoor workers and non-human primates who live outdoors in the sun naturally have.

“Sunbeds that emit UVB …