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A government-commissioned report on vitamin D in North America contained a strange contradiction: saying in one sentence that the population is getting enough vitamin D, but conspicuously underplaying the fact that they also recommend tripling the daily vitamin D recommendation …

Women who use sunbeds more than once a month for several decades had a 37 percent lower risk of contracting breast cancer, according to a new prospective study of nearly 50,000 Swedish women followed for 15 years — a strong …

A British report is blaming overzealous sun protection campaigns for the resurgence of rickets — a bone disfiguring disease in minors caused by extreme vitamin D deficiency.

Dr. Elspeth Webb, a Cardiff University children’s health expert, told the British Broadcasting …

A New Jersey tanning business owner received a phone call July 21 from what is apparently a sting operation attempting to get tanning salon employees to tell an operator they would allow a teen-age caller to tan in their salon …

About two-thirds of tanning businesses say the federal 10 percent excise tax on UV tanning services — which took affect in July 2010 as part of the 2010 Health Care Act — has hurt their businesses more than they expected, …

One of Britain’s largest newspapers on Tuesday published a story accusing Sun Scare profiteers of going to far — asking the question, “Is it time we stopped being so scared of the sun?”

In an article headlined,“Tanning: Let the Sunshine …

A leading expert on cancer prevention has once again slammed North America’s two largest cancer organizations for failing to focus on cancer prevention efforts like vitamin D sufficiency and instead squandering donor and taxpayer money on pharmaceutical-oriented cancer treatment programs.…

The benefits humans get from suntans far outweigh the risks of overdoing it, an astronomer whose life work has been studying the sun wrote last week in a column that’s getting lots of attention.

Bob Berman — an American astronomer …