How to Sunbathe Safely
Sunscreens absorb short-wave ultraviolet light, which is responsible for sunburn. However, they do nothing to block long-wave ultraviolet radiation which is the major cause of a skin cancer.
Sunscreens absorb short-wave ultraviolet light, which is responsible for sunburn. However, they do nothing to block long-wave ultraviolet radiation which is the major cause of a skin cancer.
Janet Carlson | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
Melanoma is the black-belt of skin cancers. It travels stealthily, horizontally through the skin and sets up satellites that can get busy. Left untreated, melanoma can kill you.
Martha St Jean | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
In conversation number two with 10 women who are changing the world and rocking their fields, I bring you Janet Hanson.
Yuna Shin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living
My dislike of the sun is actually the result of a combination of both the Korean cultural upbringing and the photosensitivity I suffered as a child.
JJ Levenstein | Posted 06.20.2009 | Living
A parent has good reason to engage in sun protection early on: One blistering sunburn from unprotected sun exposure as a child can possibly double the risk of melanoma later in life.
Janice Horowitz | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
Melanoma has always been considered linked to sun exposure, and sunscreen thought to protect against it. Now some doctors raise doubts.
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.17.2009 | Living
Everybody should be getting routine head-to-toe skin exams. This means looking from head to toe at every millimeter of your body, including where the sun doesn't shine.
AP | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living
LONDON — Melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer, is now the most common cancer in young British women, the country's leading cancer organiz...
David Horton | Posted 12.23.2008 | Living
I see Ian Fraser, who developed the vaccine against cervical cancer, is now working on one for a form of skin cancer. What next I wondered. Remember ...
Tabby Biddle | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
Today as I waited in the doctor's office, I felt calm and secure. I felt that after spending years with a victim attitude and years in denial, that this time I was the one determining my diagnosis.
Philip Barr | Posted 11.13.2008 | Living
Like many, you may have been taught Vitamin D keeps your bones strong and while this is true, we now know there are many more vital functions of this fascinating vitamin.
Dr. Anne Chapas | Posted 11.06.2008 | Living
Thursday night' s vice presidential debate that was broadcast in high definition allowed us to see each candidate's skin in an unusual amount of detail.
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 09.24.2008 | Style
Tans are out! Yes, you heard me. Tans have gone the way of shoulder pads, dark lip liner, and, more recently, Uggs.
Politico | Alexander Burns | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Since John McCain announced Friday that first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would be his running mate, Democrats have been quick to ...
Val Brown | Posted 08.08.2008 | Style
I have friends who have "embraced pale" for years. But the opportunity to maintain an alabaster complexion (in my mind, the only look that works if you go sunless in summer) was wasted during a couple of years in school in Miami, Irish freckles emerging for, alas, life.
Jon Wiener | Posted 04.28.2008 | Home
Why won't John McCain's release his medical records? There is increasing speculation that the skin cancer surgery he underwent eight years ago was much more extensive than he has admitted.
Wall Street Journal | Scott Hensley | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
Pfizer's search for new drugs took another hit when the company halted a late-stage trial of an experimental medicine to treat metastatic skin cancer....
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
One week after Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling "officially" endorsed Sen. John McCain for president, the Beantown hero received a softball of his own: ...
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living