Tanning News

Tanning Industry Misleading
Teens about Health Risk,
Says Congressional Report

A new report released by leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce reveals that tanning salons are routinely not providing accurate information about skin cancer and other risks to teens seeking their services.

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Vermont Becomes Second State to Ban Indoor Tanning for Minors

The Skin Cancer Foundation applauds the state of Vermont for taking this historic step in the fight against skin cancer. 

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Tanning News

  • International Study Links Tanning Beds to Melanoma International Study Links Tanning Beds to Melanoma

    Many teens and twenty-somethings want that bronzed glow all year 'round, and when they can't tan outdoors, millions use sunbeds to get it. Every year, nearly 2.3 million American teenagers visit …

  • American Academy of Pediatrics Calls for Ban on Youth Tanning American Academy of Pediatrics Calls for Ban on Youth Tanning
    IN THE HEADLINES...

    February 28, 2011 The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a group of 60,000 pediatricians, today called for all US tanning salons to bar minors. With this new policy …

  • The Road to Group I The Road to Group I
    How the International Agency for Research on Cancer Came to Classify Indoor Ultraviolet (UV) Tanning as Carcinogenic to Humans

    Philippe Autier, MD, MPH

    In 2009, a working group of the International …

  • World Health Organization Scientists Warn Against Ultraviolet Tanning Beds World Health Organization Scientists Warn Against Ultraviolet Tanning Beds
    The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a working group of the World Health Organization, has added ultraviolet radiation (UVR)-emitting tanning devices - tanning beds - to the list …
  • Young Tanners at Risk Young Tanners at Risk
     The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), has unequivocally linked sunbed tanning among young people to melanoma, the deadliest …