The North American dermatology community typically targets the month of May to discuss melanoma awareness. And while sun awareness and sunburn prevention are important topics, dermatology’s melanoma awareness campaigns generally ignore important points. There arguably is more misinformation about skin …

Essay: There’s no causal link between sunbed-use and cancer, so why are politicians clamping down on teens tanning?

By Patrick Basham and John Luik
Published in www.spiked-online.com

Editor’s Note: Patrick Basham and John Luik of the Democracy Institute penned the …

An Iranian police chief this week upped the ante on ridiculous dermatology matra, promising to arrest women who have suntans — a sign that they have violated the Iranian view of Islamic law by not being clothed from head to …

Vitamin D Council founder Dr. John Cannell has been promoting sun exposure as the best source of vitamin D and slamming those in the cosmetics industry who have over-sold sun protection products — including a recent 1 hour radio interview.…

“Excessive (sun) avoidance and UV screening is a danger because it does not allow a tan, nature’s own sun block, to develop and as a result exposure is likely to cause sun-burn. The dogma, now fossilised in print, is that …

Real Simple magazine proved that it doesn’t understand vitamin D at all in its recent article, “Easy Does It: Making Sense of Moderation” in which the magazine urged its readers not to get vitamin D from the sun.

“Sunlight helps …

Tanning facility operators are overwhelmingly convinced that indoor tanning facilities teach the correct usage of chemical sunscreens better than dermatologists, a SmartTan.com poll conducted in April showed.

According to the poll, 88 percent of tanning facility owners felt their tanning …

“We need the sun in moderation, too — for sun exposure is our best source of vitamin D. It’s a well-documented fact that sunlight is necessary for human survival but we’ve been brainwashed into thinking that any exposure to sunlight …