Indoor tanning is far more dangerous than tanning in the sun and could drastically increase your risk of skin cancer.

Dr. Robin Hornung doesn’t mince words about the damage tanning beds can cause. “A lot of operators don’t know what they’re doing,” the Everett dermatologist said. “They’re getting people cooked.” She ...

WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP)-- Federal health officials are proposing a ban on the use of tanning beds for anyone under the age of 18, part of an ongoing government effort to reduce skin cancers linked ...

Indoor tanning beds can cause non-melanoma skin cancer — and the risk is greater the earlier one starts tanning, according to a new analysis led by UCSF. Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH Indoor tanning is ...

I drove past Planet Fitness on the way to my 10-year-old’s gymnastics class and had to chuckle at their sign advertising free pizza as part of a new member promotion. I decided to use this as a ...

The stereotypical indoor tanner is a young woman, but men tan, too. And while men may use tanning beds less often than women, new research has found they do it in riskier ways. Warnings about the ...

As a teen, Casie VanderLind had a winter after-school routine: She would work out, go to cheerleading practice, and, two to four times a week, head home to use the tanning bed in her family’s basement ...

A single indoor tanning exposure raises the risk of melanoma by about 20 percent, and each additional session during the same year increases the risk by about 2 percent. About a quarter of people who ...

According to the American Academy of Dermatology, almost 70 percent of people who use tanning salons are Caucasian girls and young women. Because of that, rates of melanoma is increasing faster in ...

The FDA is one step closer to prohibiting minors from soaking up the harmful rays of tanning beds. On Friday it announced proposed rules that would restrict use of indoor tanning beds to individuals ...

Tanning salons are already under siege: They got taxed by the health law, are newly regulated by the federal government, and states and have become dermatologists' favorite bad guy. But some ...

Tanning beds will be off limits for teenagers and children if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has its way. Proposed regulations made public Friday by the FDA would ban children under 18 from ...