“We talk about science as this pure ideal and the scientific method as if it is something out of a cookbook, but research is a social and human activity full of all the failings of society and humans, and this …

A Mayo Clinic research team reported this week that lymphoma patients with higher vitamin D levels were much less likely to see the disease progress and may be twice as likely to survive.…

A Mayo Clinic research team reported this week that lymphoma patients with higher vitamin D levels were much less likely to see the disease progress and may be twice as likely to survive.…

Owners of indoor tanning facilities are still finding time to tan as much or more than they did last year, a SmartTan.com poll conducted this month revealed.…

Owners of indoor tanning facilities are still finding time to tan as much or more than they did last year, a SmartTan.com poll conducted this month revealed.…

DEC. 9, 2009 — The concept of an excise tax on indoor tanning is being kicked around, at least in early stages, as one of many possible sources of federal revenue, an on-line Washington policy newsletter reported Tuesday.…

DEC. 9, 2009 — The concept of an excise tax on indoor tanning is being kicked around, at least in early stages, as one of many possible sources of federal revenue, an on-line Washington policy newsletter reported Tuesday.…

“Going out into the sun without protection is as, or even more dangerous, than having unprotected sex.” — Melanoma activist Marisa Marchetto, responding to Rosie O’Donnell’s recent appearance on Rachael Ray’s television show in which O’Donell declared that she “lives …