Skin Cancer

Newsday's coverage

• FDA Proposes Tougher Warnings for Tanning Beds

  time that these sunlamps were reclassified and held to a higher standard. I applaud this move, especially since the rise in skin cancer, especially in young people, has been documented. I hope that this legislation keeps more sunlamps off the shelves and away   Read more »

• Melanoma Rates Rising in U.S. Children

  among U.S children from newborns to age 19. Melanoma accounts for up to 3 percent of all pediatric cancers, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. According to the study, 1,317 children were diagnosed with melanoma during the study time frame. Of these,   Read more »

• Study: Aspirin lowers skin cancer risk in women

  who take aspirin on a regular basis reduce their risk of developing malignant melanoma , the deadliest form of skin cancer, medical researchers have discovered.An analysis of more than 60,000 women, participants in the Women's Health Initiative, a vast ongoing   Read more »

• Without Laws, Many Tanning Salons Would Allow Kids: Study

  as 10, while on average 43 percent said that indoor tanning was perfectly safe.While 40 percent of the operators said that skin cancer is a risk, 20 percent said that any related risk was eliminated "if the customer takes precautions." Four in five facilities   Read more »

Around the web

• Don't Fry Friday - May 24th

  ways that prevent overexposure to the sun. Download EPA's free UV Index app at www.epa.gov/enviro/mobile/. Read more about "skin cancer" and workers' compensation: Many workers suffer from compensable diseases caused by sun exposure. As the world's ozone layer 19 m ago from Workers Compensation Read more »

• More patients than docs report skin surgery problems

  YORK (Reuters Health) - More than one quarter of people being treated for non-melanoma skin cancer in their doctor's office reported some type of complication after surgery, in a new study. About half of those complications were medical problems related to 3:34 PM from Reuters Mobile Read more »

• Sunscreen Guide: SPF Products To Protect You From Head To Toe (PHOTOS)

  and premature aging. And with the unsettling findings by the Skin Cancer Foundation that one in five Americans will experience skin cancer in his or her lifetime, why not add SPF products to your daily beauty routine? Here, nine sunscreens to help you brave 3:09 PM from The Huffington Post Read more »

• Celgene's Management Presents at 2013 UBS Global Healthcare Conference (Transcript)

  data is significant, its truly transforming for patients with a very devastating disease and we see ABRAXANE in breast, lung cancer, and hopefully the approval in pancreatic cancer driving growth for the product as well as for the company overall. This is 2:38 PM from Seeking Alpha Read more »

• Terminally ill mother, 57, to spend final months sailing around the UK - and she hopes the voyage earn her dog Betty a place in the history books

  there was no cure for her aggressive form of skin cancer and gave her nine months to live. Lori Murdock, who has terminal skin cancer, is sailing around the UK with her dog, a Patterdale terrier called Betty - she hopes Betty will become the first dog to travel 12:46 PM from Daily Mail - UK Read more »