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Sunlight and Tanning Beds

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NEWS:

Artificial tanning sunbeds: risk and guidance

Consumers Encouraged to Be "Clothes" Minded When It Comes to Selecting Summer Wardrobe

Despite the Dangers, Young People Soak Up the Sun

Exposure to sunlight may decrease risk of prostate cancer

Making a case for sun's benefits

Sunbeds, tanning and UV exposure

Sunlight May Help Cancer Victims Survive

Too little sunshine may be as bad as too much

World Health Organization Recommends That No Person under 18 Should Use a Sunbed

ARTICLES:

Do white British children and adolescents get enough sunlight?

Health Tip: What to Watch Out For in Tanning Booths

NGC - Counseling to prevent skin cancer: recommendations and rationale. (2003)

NGC - Preventing skin cancer: findings of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services on Reducing Exposure to Ultraviolet Light. (2003)

Sunlight and Cancer: Testing the Vitamin D Hypothesis

Truth about Tanning: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Skin

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A case for informed consent? Indoor UV tanning facility operator's provision of health risks information (United States). (Cancer Causes Control. 2005)

A potential role for UVR and Vitamin D in the induction of Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis. (Photochem Photobiol. 2005)

Adolescent girls in Maine are at risk for vitamin D insufficiency. (J Am Diet Assoc. 2005)

Amelioration of osteoporosis and hypovitaminosis d by sunlight exposure in hospitalized, elderly women with Alzheimer's disease: a randomized controlled trial. (J Bone Miner Res. 2005)

Association of UV index, latitude, and melanoma incidence in nonwhite populations--US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, 1992 to 2001. (Arch Dermatol. 2005)

Benefits and requirements of vitamin D for optimal health: a review. (Altern Med Rev. 2005)

Cutaneous malignant melanoma: facts about sunbeds and sunscreen. (Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2005)

Determinants of vitamin D status in older women living in a subtropical climate. (Osteoporos Int. 2005)

Double-strand break repair machinery is sensitive to UV radiation. (J Mol Biol. 2005)

Effect of sunscreen and clothing on the number of melanocytic nevi in 1,812 German children attending day care. (Am J Epidemiol. 2005)

Indoor tanning by adolescents: prevalence, practices and policies. (Eur J Cancer. 2005)

Low levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D are associated with elevated parathyroid hormone in healthy adolescent females. (Osteoporos Int. 2005)

Mechanisms underlying UV-induced immune suppression. (Mutat Res. 2005)

Melanogenesis: a photoprotective response to DNA damage? (Mutat Res. 2005)

Mutations induced by ultraviolet light. (Mutat Res. 2005)

[Osteoporosis and sunlight.] (Clin Calcium. 2005)

Photochemoprevention of ultraviolet B signaling and photocarcinogenesis. (Mutat Res. 2005)

Preventing ultraviolet light lip injury: beachgoer awareness about lip cancer risk factors and lip protection behavior. (Dermatol Surg. 2005)

Seasonal mood variation in the elderly: the Leiden 85-plus Study. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005)

Sun exposure and mortality from melanoma. (J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005)

Sun exposure and risk of melanoma. (Arch Dis Child. 2005)

Sun exposure, vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms, and risk of advanced prostate cancer. (Cancer Res. 2005)

Sun Protection and the Development of Melanocytic Nevi in Children (Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2005)

Sunburn related to UV radiation exposure, age, sex, occupation, and sun bed use based on time-stamped personal dosimetry and sun behavior diaries. (Arch Dermatol. 2005)

Sunscreens and melanoma: the future looks bright. (Br J Dermatol. 2005)

Tanning Beds, Sunlamps, and Risk of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma (Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2005)

The Effect of Sunlight on Postoperative Analgesic Medication Use: A Prospective Study of Patients Undergoing Spinal Surgery (Psychosomatic Medicine 2005)

The North Queensland "Sun-Safe Clothing" study: design and baseline results of a randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of sun-protective clothing in preventing melanocytic nevi. (Am J Epidemiol. 2005)

[The role of ultraviolet irradiation in malignant melanoma.] (Hautarzt. 2005)

Ultraviolet A exposure might increase metastasis of mouse melanoma: a pilot study. (Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed. 2005)

Ultraviolet B-Induced DNA Damage in Human Epidermis Is Modified by the Antioxidants Ascorbic Acid and d-alpha-Tocopherol. (J Invest Dermatol. 2005)

Ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer: molecular mechanisms. (J Cutan Pathol. 2005)

Ultraviolet radiation exposure and risk of malignant lymphomas. (J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005)

Ultraviolet radiation: effects on risks of prostate cancer and other internal cancers. (Mutat Res. 2005)

[Ultraviolet radiation--immune response] (J Dtsch Dermatol Ges. 2005)

Ultraviolet radiation-mediated damage to cellular DNA. (Mutat Res. 2005)

Using UV Photography to Reduce Use of Tanning Booths: A Test of Cognitive Mediation. (Health Psychol. 2005)

UV Doses Worldwide. (Photochem Photobiol. 2005)

UV hazard on a summer's day under Mediterranean conditions, and the protective role of a beach umbrella. (Int J Biometeorol. 2005)

UV-exposition and vitamin-D: How much sunlight do we need? (Exp Dermatol. 2005)

Vitamin D and adult bone health in Australia and New Zealand: a position statement. (Med J Aust. 2005)

Vitamin D and prevention of colorectal cancer. (J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2005)

Vitamin D and skin cancer: A problem in gene regulation. (J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2005)

Vitamin d and the epidemiology of prostate cancer. (Semin Dial. 2005)

Vitamin D deficiency in Tunisia. (Osteoporos Int. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NCI - Health Information Tip Sheet for Writers: Artificial Tanning Booths and Cancer

NIH - Skin Cancer

NIH - Sun Exposure

NIH - Sun Exposure Resources

Today's UV (Ultraviolet) Index

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