When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow like a celebrity. "It was just the thing to do. Everyone wanted that nice, ...
"It was just the thing to do -- everyone wanted that nice, dark, tan skin," the 49-year-old market researcher told AFP via video call from Chicago. Then one day in her 30s, Tarr noticed a strange mole ...
A Northwestern University study found that tanning bed use triples the risk of melanoma and causes widespread DNA mutations across the skin. Researchers discovered that indoor tanners had nearly twice ...
(Ben Schamisso/NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY-UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM/AFP) When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow like a ...
New research found that even just a few sessions in these devices can lead to DNA damage in skin cells, raising the odds of cancer. A new study found that tanning bed use can increase the risk of ...
Study analyzed thousands of medical records to compare melanoma rates in tanning bed users vs. non-users, and sequenced 182 skin biopsies from tanning bed users and controls Tanning bed users carried ...