About half of tanning facility owners say they intend to purchase or lease new tanning equipment in the next nine months, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in June.
According to the poll, 51 percent of tanning businesses say they …
Melanoma is among a group of cancers that are being over-diagnosed by a medical industry whose early detection and screening programs are finding smaller masses that wouldn’t have been detected a generation ago and which most likely will not ever …
A senior United States senator is pushing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to come clean on research suggesting that some common sunscreen chemicals might actually cause cancer themselves.
“With the recent reports suggesting a possible link between skin cancer …
The U.S. Federal government on Friday finally published guidelines for the collection of the new 10 percent luxury tax on UV-related indoor tanning services, a supplemental tax crammed into 2010 Health Care Reform legislation as a revenue alternative to a …
The U.S. federal government still hasn’t contacted tanning business owners with specifics about how to collect the 10 percent luxury tax on indoor tanning that Congress included in Health Care legislation passed earlier this year, according to a SmartTan.com poll …
The average vitamin D content in 10 over-the-counter vitamin D supplements is only one-third what the label claims, according to a study presented at a medical conference in San Antonio this week.
Will a U.S. District Court ruling slapping the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for censoring scientifically backed claims about the cancer-fighting properties of the mineral selenium mean anything to those who would like to promote the positive effects of UV …
A new television ad for Aveeno’s new SPF 100+ sunscreen products ends with the statement, “Sun protection works stronger, so you can play longer” — contradicting one of dermatology’s statements that SPFs should not be used to allow people to …
