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Even as the rates of some cancers are falling, an alarming trend among people under 40 in the dramatic rise of skin cancer has been observed by researchers at Mayo Clinic. Health officials are specifically citing tanning salons as a major source of the increase, the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings suggests. Researchers examined records from a decades-long database of all patient care in Olmsted County, Minn., and looked for first-time diagnoses of melanoma in patients ages 18-39...

Look at a middle school assembly – during their lifetime one in 50 of these kids will develop melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer that kills 48,000 people every year, worldwide. Now look at these kids again – which are at highest risk? You can’t tell, but a study recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology shows that UV photography might provide important information about risk, not visible to the naked eye. The amount of sun damage in UV...

Custom Airbrush Solution and Natural Glow Sunless Tanning Products are offering a special report available exclusively to business owners needing an effective sunless tanning system. The packet provides salon owners with everything they need to know to run a successful sunless tanning business. Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 16, 2012 Custom Airbrush Solution is offering a special report to sunless tanning salon owners who are interested in increasing sales, decreasing supply costs and producing...

LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The end of winter is prime time for tanning as teens prepare for spring break and escape the cool-weather blues. An estimated 2.3 million teens visit a tanning salon at least once a year, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. What these teens don't realize is that just four visits to a tanning booth per year can increase their risk for melanoma by 11 percent. One teen wants to make a difference. Actress Miranda Cosgrove, 18, is...

Absurd questions about revenue postpone important health legislation SCHAUMBURG, Ill., March 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Idaho Dermatology Society (IDS) and the American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA) are disappointed in the postponement of the vote by the Idaho House of Representatives on House Bill 486, which would ban the use of indoor tanning beds by minors under the age of 18. The vote was postponed due to the objections of the Idaho Freedom Foundation...

Dermatologists Urge Bill Adoption to Protect Youth from Skin Cancer BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Dermatology Association and the Idaho Dermatology Society urge the Idaho state legislature to adopt House Bill 486 which bans the use of indoor tanning devices by minors under 18. The Idaho legislation is designed to protect youth from melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, and is based on significant scientific evidence that...

Senate & House Hearings to Consider Greater Protection of Youth ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State Senator Jamie Raskin, Delegate Kirill Reznik and Delegate Mary Ann Love joined 11 additional legislators in the Maryland State Senate and House of Delegates in co-sponsoring Senate Bill 213 and House Bill 207 to prohibit use of tanning devices by minors under the age of 18. The Maryland legislation is designed to protect youth from melanoma, the...

CONCORD, Mass., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The second most common cancer among teens and young adults 15-29 is melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. It's no coincidence that the sharp increase in melanoma in recent years is tied to tanning. The World Health Organization puts soaking up UV rays in the same category as smoking cigarettes. If you use a tanning bed once a month and are under 35, your chance of getting melanoma increases by 75%. The picture is pretty...

A new congressional report accuses tanning salons of misleading their customers to try and gain business. The probe found that tanning salons are downplaying the risks of tanning in beds, and promoting benefits that do not exist to its younger clients that do not know any better. The investigation by the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee found that nearly all indoor tanning salons contacted denied the known risks of indoor tanning, and four out of five salons claimed it is...

Statement by Suzanne M. Connolly, M.D., FAAD Vice President, American Academy of Dermatology Association SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA) lauds the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee for its thorough investigation of indoor tanning salons documenting the false health claims and misleading information being provided to their customers, especially minors. The results of this investigation point...