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.…

For years “Sun Scare” purveyors have floated the bogus argument that sunbeds are more dangerous than natural sun because they are “more intense” than sunlight. That argument is based fully on the fact that most people don’t even know what …

Canada’s dermatology industry lobbying group Friday called tanning beds “an inefficient” source of vitamin D in an apparent attempt to mislead Canadians about the relative sources of vitamin D.

“Canadians are getting a lot of mixed messages when it comes …

British dermatology leader Dr. Sam Shuster says that a suntan is not damage — it is nature’s intended design and that anyone who thinks otherwise should “tell that to Darwin.” Shuster’s comments on suntans are published as a portion of …

More than three-quarters of people in the indoor tanning business feel better about the future of the tanning market this spring than they did a year ago, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in early June.

According to the poll, …

“It should be noted that the predominate emission of tanning lamp is in the UVA range, while cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D is only induced by UVB.” — Dr. Henry Lim, American Academy of Dermatology Council on Science and Research …

Uvalux Tanning and Support and CanTan Sun Systems — Canada’s two largest indoor tanning suppliers — will merge beginning in August, according to a press statement issued by Uvalux Monday evening.

The Uvalux statement, issued by Uvalux president Nik Van …

A 95-year-old mainstream multi-disciplined medical society today endorsed natural vitamin D levels being promoted by the world’s largest vitamin D coalition, opposing dermatology statements and the recent Institute of Medicine vitamin D report.

The Endocrine Society – a 14,000-member medical …