Tanning beds are not safe for people with lupus. The bulbs in tanning beds produce ultraviolet light rays. It is the ultraviolet light rays that cause the skin to tan. The majority of people with ...

Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are ...

Michele Hoard has stayed away from tanning beds and out of the sun since she was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, in January 2003. But when she heard that a tanning ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tanning beds and sun lamps will carry new warnings that they should not be used by anyone under age 18, part of a government action announced Thursday aimed at reducing rising rates ...

TORONTO – Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews announced Thursday that the province would soon table legislation banning the use of tanning beds for anyone under the age of 18. The new measures would ...

Experts: Tanning beds, UV radiation a carcinogen, akin to cigarettes, arsenic. July 30, 2009 — -- For Mary Ann Gerber, every glance in the mirror is a reminder of the hours she spent tanning and ...

An international health agency has officially ruled that tanning beds pose as likely to cause cancer as cigarettes, asbestos, and arsenic. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) moved ...

Tanning is bad for you. That information is nothing new. Dermatologists have been saying it for years, and yet more people are jumping into tanning beds. In several U.S. cities in 2009, tanning salons ...

Even though men use tanning beds at lower rates than women, men who tan tend to do it in riskier ways, according to a new study. The findings should help public health officials rethink how, and to ...