Tanning beds must carry skin cancer warning, FDA saysThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is strengthening its regulation of tanning beds, which have been shown to increase the risk of skin cancer.Fox News
Indoor tanning has become increasingly popular over the past decades, despite evidence of an increased risk of melanoma and, possibly, nonmelanoma skin cancer. Tanning bed proponents cite the health benefits of vitamin D to support indoor tanning, including concerns that reduced vitamin D levels or ...
ban on the use of tanning beds among minors would prevent thousands of cases of melanoma in adolescents and would save millions of dollars in healthcare costs. The findings were published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The dangers of Indo...
"The fact that is continuously ignored is that there is no proven link between the responsible use of sunbeds and skin cancer," Banks said in a statement. She said most users of tanning beds use them less than 20 times a year. But as use of tanning beds has increased among people unde...
(HealthDay)—More than a third of all Americans—and nearly six out of 10 U.S. university students—have used indoor tanning, despite widespread knowledge that the devices contribute to skin cancer risk, a new study finds. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed da...
As a result of several studies on tanning beds and skin cancer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified the use of sun beds as carcinogenic to humans, Dr. Schneider and colleagues note. "Detailed population-based information about the prevalence of sunbed use and individual...
Evidence of the dangers of indoor tanning and its popularity, including among youth, led the Government of Ontario to pass the Skin Cancer Prevention Act (Tanning Beds) (SCPA) in 2014. This legislation includes prohibiting the sale of indoor tanning services to individuals under 18, requiring ...
If social media interventions can be shown to shift high-risk cancer behaviors in a vulnerable group, using the example of tanning beds and skin cancer, then the implications are tremendous. Findings could be applied to tobacco cessation, obesity prevention, and beyond cancer prevention, to other...
Skin Cancer Risk Depended on Time in Tanning Beds People who had used an indoor tanning machine for between one and nine hours in total were more likely to get melanoma, but less likely than those with more than 50 hours of use.
不同的国家文化使得人们对于美的看法也不尽相同,中国有句俗语叫“一白遮九丑”,然而有些国家则认为白色的皮肤是不健康的,因而他们当中的有些人会使用tanning beds器械以使皮肤变黑(使皮肤变黑的紫外线辐射机),然而最近的一项研究表明使用该仪器将会使得人们更易患上癌疾。