Tanning bed use is tied to almost a threefold increase in melanoma risk, and findings from new research show these devices cause melanoma-linked DNA damage across nearly the entire skin surface. The findings were reported in a study published in Science Advances  led by Northwestern Medicine in Chicago and the University of California, San Francisco. This new study “irrefutably” challenges claims from the tanning industry that tanning beds are no more harmful than sunlight by

Photo by curretett on Freeimages.com Young adults who use tanning beds may be aging their skin cells at a molecular level much faster than their chronological age suggests, according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Northwestern University. The research, published December 12 in Science Advances , reports that tanning bed users in their 30s and 40s harbour more mutations in their skin cells than nonusers who were in their 70s or 80s.

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