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A leading vitamin D advocacy group believes daily vitamin D intake recommendations may have to go as high as 6,000 international units — 15 times higher than current recommendations — to ensure that everyone gets natural levels of The Sunshine …

ABC News reported on Good Morning America on Monday that higher levels of vitamin D shrink cancer cells much the same way as the uber-drug Tamoxifen — a realization that comes as no surprise to vitamin D researchers, but which …

President Barack Obama has put 9,000 jobs in jeopardy when he went back on his campaign promise Monday, supporting a proposed tax brokered by powerful lobbyists behind closed doors.  The controversial 10 percent federal tax on indoor tanning services has …

The indoor tanning community has successfully fought off Teenage “Tan Ban” proposals in three states this winter, with under-18 ban proposals in New Hampshire, Washington and South Dakota all going down in the past few weeks.…

A majority of indoor tanning facilities say their client base is getting older, a SmartTan.com survey conducted in February revealed. According to the survey, 58 percent of salons believe the average age of their tanning clients increased in the past …

A tanning industry veteran in Omaha was published in the Omaha World-Herald on Wednesday, responding to a dermatology-inspired anti-tan article in the same newspaper just a week ago, Tracie Cunningham, executive vice president of Ashley Lynn’s Tanning, an Omaha-based chain, …

A pro-sunlight column written by a financial services writer earlier this year keeps popping up in new publications.…

“Telling people to wear chemical sunscreen on a cloudy day is misbranding a product whose only approved use is to prevent sunburn. Yet the cosmetic dermatology industry — whose advocacy groups accept millions of dollars directly from the manufacturers of …