An indoor tanning sunbed re-lamped with red light lamps and marketed as a “red light therapy” unit needs to have proper U.S. Food and Drug Administration pre-market approval before being marketed for sale, the FDA said in a Dec. 21 …

“The classic signs and symptoms for vitamin D deficiency are often aches and pains in your bones and muscles and often physicians misdiagnose this.” — Boston University Vitamin D pioneer Dr. Michael Holick, talking about his book, “The Vitamin D …

Faced with a tepid economy, changing business conditions, Sun Scare marketing and myriad other challenges, the tanning market continued to show its resilience and character in 2011, with an overwhelming number of tanning business leaders continuing to remain optimistic about …

The non-profit Environmental Working Group in 2011 reminded everyone again that sun avoidance has its own health risks and that daily sunscreen usage has never been proven to be without risks, as chemical sunscreen products do penetrate into the body.…

April 27, 2011: A Georgia salon owner — who had only been open for business for three weeks — found safety by hiding with her two daughters inside a closed sunbed as a killer tornado ripped apart the rest …

“When you ingest vitamin D, only about 60 percent of it sticks to vitamin D-binding protein, but when you make vitamin D in your skin, 100 percent binds to the protein.” — Dr. Michael F. Holick, vitamin D research pioneer …

“Most people can get their daily fill of vitamin D by drinking a cup of milk and eating a 3-ounce serving of salmon.” — Dr. Susan Y Chon, dermatologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Canter at the University of Texas, …

An International Smart Tan Network survey of 6,881 indoor tanning clients revealed that 11 percent of tanning clients say a doctor referred them to a tanning salon for therapeutic reasons and that 28 percent of those referring physicians were dermatologists. …