Tanning Beds and Skin Cancer Linked: 'Carcinogenic to Humans'

Tanning beds and cancer have been linked. According to the IARC's Cancer Monograph Working Group, the risk of developing melanoma (skin cancer) jumps 75% in people under 30 if they regularly use tanning beds. The...

Frank McCourt, Author of Angela's Ashes May Have Weeks to Live

Frank McCourt, the world-famous author and Pulitzer Prize winner of Angela's Ashes, may only have weeks to live as he battles the deadly skin cancer melanoma and now he has been diagnosed with meningitis. He is...

Melanoma Rates on the Rise in U.S.

Melanoma skin cancer rates are on the rise among all Americans, particularly older white men.  Researchers are quite sure that the increase is legitimate and not a result of more effective cancer screening techniques.  " Rates of melanoma increased by 3.1 percent a...

Many Holes in Disclosure of Nominees’ Health

Today The New York Times did a checkup on the presidentialtickets' medical backgrounds. Barack Obama and Joe Biden check out, more or less, with a clean bill of health. Questions remain about Obama's difficulty in...

Cancer Society wrong on melanoma risk

SUNLIGHT: THE BEST MEDICINE?–The Jury Is In–"For three years now, sunsafe campaigners have been appealing for calm and "more research" before making "hasty" decisions about the dangers of UV rays. But now two new scientific studies have confirmed one of medical science's...

Flip-flops linked to skin cancer

If summer ever comes this season, then it will be important to remember that doctors in the UK have warned that wearing sandals and flip flops can put people at risk of developing skin cancer on their feet.Which...

McCain appears decades younger than Chronological Age

Three-time melanoma survivor John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press.  The...

Bruce Springsteen's Keyboard Player, Danny Federici Dies

Danny Federici, the enigmatic keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died Thursday after 40 years of playing with the Band. Federici had been battling melanoma for years and had performed a final...

Deflating White People’s Contemporary Arguments to Blacks’ Racial Cries:...

1. Slavery Get Over It!Because whites have failed to educate or intentionally not educated themselves on how their forefathers’ racial hate, greed & perversions directly affect our social and psychological well being today doesn’t mean they should not be held...

Broccoli May Help Fight Skin Cancer

What's good for your diet may also guard against skin cancer.Scientists have discovered that an extract of broccoli sprouts protects the skin against the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.That's not the same as calling the extract a sunscreen, however."This is not a sunscreen,...

All Light Burns Fair Skin

"ALL LIGHT BURNS FAIR WHITE SKIN" -BLONDE HAIR, BLUE EYES & ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT: THE FIRES OF HELL Sleugh Crooks (Alexandria, La.) - The White man has gone through great legnths to conceal his...

Younger tanners getting older cancers

Britain's tanning industry--which is largely unregulated--is allowing for younger and younger users to have access to coin-operated tanning salons without supervision. This unfettered access is leading to a huge...

Gene-therapy result promising -- at last

"WASHINGTON - A team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute on Thursday reported that they had successfully treated two cancer patients using gene therapy, the introduction of genes into the human body for medical purposes. Two men, both with the rapidly growing...

Inside Stricken Mother, a Race Between Life and Death

Since his wife's brain stopped functioning weeks ago, since she was hooked to a ventilator and her cancer began spreading down to her neck, to her back and to the lymph nodes under her arms, Jason Torres said he's noticed relatively little physical change except one: Her...

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