CHICAGO, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As the weather begins to warm, some Americans may want to head to their local tanning salon to get a good "base tan" before they don their bathing suits and shorts.

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A sunburn might not be the only thing you need to worry about this summer. “There’s no such thing as a safe tan,” Krista Rubin, nurse practitioner at Mass General Brigham’s Center for Melanoma, told ...

On sunny or even cloudy days, the UV index can be a good thing to check. "It's five, moderate. But you're still supposed to use sun protection it says," explained Claira Wright, a University of ...

Darkened or tan skin naturally occurs after exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays. However, lying under the sun can be time-consuming and result in inconsistent coloring. Because of this, more and more ...

Sun exposure has some positive and many negative effects for humans. The skin requires exposure to UV-B rays from the sun in order to stimulate vitamin D synthesis, as a lack of vitamin D can cause ...

A healthy glow is something most people want. To some, that glow comes in the form of a tan. ‌There are a few different ways to get a tan, including tanning beds and the old-fashioned method: lying in ...

AVON, Ohio — Some sun worshipers looking to avoid harmful UV rays are turning to spray tanning as a safe alternative. Now, a new warning about the main ingredient used in the spray formula is sparking ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Electrical tape on private parts. Really? Welcome to the latest fashion fad in beauty-obsessed Rio de Janeiro, where some women are sun-baking in bikinis made of black tape in search ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The early aughts were the worst possible kind of golden age. Tans were inescapable—on Britney Spears’s midriff, on the flexing biceps outside of Abercrombie & ...