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Published on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 by mcypen
Mailing sun-protection kits, which contain information about the dangers of exposure to the sun's harmful UV rays and skin cancer, as well as swim shirts, hats and sunscreen, increases the number of people who take steps to protect their children from sun exposure, according to a new study.
Researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of C...
Published on Thursday, July 5, 2012 by mcypen
Forty-nine states have sunscreen bans in place at public schools. Sunscreen technically is listed under OTC medications (over-the-counter) in which school districts are allowed to impose their own rules concerning these medications which places sunscreen the same as Tylenol or aspirin.
Headlines of sunscreen outrage make the media since the story of a mother in Tacom...
Published on Thursday, April 5, 2012 by mcypen
What you think is a harmless mole or freckle on your child could be deadly. Doctors have seen a two-to-three-percent increase nationally in cases of kids with skin cancer, a rate that is actually greater than the rate of increase in any other malignancy currently treated.
Keeping kids away from tanning beds and limiting sun exposure can protect them from melanoma,...
Published on Friday, January 27, 2012 by mcypen
Despite numerous efforts to encourage people to wear sunscreen, a new study shows only 1 in 4 children regularly uses sunscreen.
Researchers say more than half of the children in the study also reported having a sunburn in the previous summer. Experts say those results are troubling. <Read More>
Pediatric cancer patients are at greatest risk...
Skin cance...
Published on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by mcypen
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times:
The Food and Drug Administration issued new guidelines for sunscreen labeling that will give consumers better information about the products' effectiveness and that will, for the first time, allow the bottles, tubes and sprays to say that sunscreens protect against skin cancer and early skin aging.
The agency has been consid...
Published on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by mcypen
Getting too much sun is bad for anyone, but it's especially dangerous for babies, whose sensitive skin hasn't developed enough layers of natural protection to withstand intense summer rays.
In fact, sun-related skin changes that occur as early as the first year of life may trigger a cascade of reactions that could lead to melanoma and other forms of skin cancer later...
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