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‘Apprentice’ Winner Headlines 2010 Convention

Friday, May 21st, 2010

2010-05-21 Smart Tan Downtown 2010 copyBill Rancic – the grassroots entrepreneur who won Tycoon Donald Trump’s first ‘The Apprentice’ show on NBC – is the keynote speaker at Smart Tan Downtown Oct. 22-24 in Downtown Nashville, an event with a conference designed to address tanning’s …

Derm in the dark

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

2010-05-20 Quote of the weak copy“There has been nothing definitive on the relationship between vitamin D and cancer survival. There isn’t even agreement on how much vitamin D to recommend. What we do know is that UV rays are carcinogens — they cause cancer. Period. …

Derm Study More Politics Than Science

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

2010-05-19 Wrinkles copyDermatology leaders — unable to convince people to stop tanning by overstating the risks associated with UV overexposure — should turn to another fear-based tactic: Showing people pictures of wrinkled skin and claiming tanning will lead to severe wrinkling.

In …

IARC Report Damaged Most in Tanning

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

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Nearly three out of four tanning businesses say media coverage of last July’s International Agency on Research on Cancer report – coverage which erroneously compared UV exposure to cigarette smoking and arsenic – has hurt their business operations. That’s the …

Pregnant Women Don’t Get Enough Sun

Monday, May 17th, 2010

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Business Week covered a study this week showing that 70 percent of pregnant women, and thus their soon-to-be-born children, are not getting the vitamin D they need — almost certainly because they don’t get enough sun exposure.

“In general, vitamin …

A Big Hole in the UV-Skin Cancer Case

Friday, May 14th, 2010

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A skin care web site this week pointed out one huge hole in the widely contested suggestion that UV exposure is the cause of melanoma skin cancer: indoor workers get melanoma more often than their outdoor-working counterparts. And a peer-reviewed …

Vitamin D Good for the Elderly

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

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Two studies released this week show that higher vitamin D levels benefit elderly people — with one study showing that those with higher vitamin D levels are less likely to suffer from depression and another study saying that elderly need …

Tanning Market Producing Mixed Results

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

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Just more than half of tanning retailers say their business was the same or better this April than it was in April 2009, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted the first 10 days of May — another indication that the …

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