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Despite all indications that most tanning business owners are optimistic about the future, about half of the salon market believes their overall financial position is weaker today than it was one year ago, a SmartTan.com poll conducted this month suggests.…

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.…