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 ...

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 ...

Zoe Routh is a regular at her local tanning salon, stopping by as often as three times a week. But the goal for Routh isn’t tanner skin; it’s healthier skin. Routh, a 22-year-old college student based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With spring break rapidly approaching, many of us are be busy making plans for fun in the sun — with plenty of sunscreen, of course. Some teenagers may even plan to visit indoor tanning salons before ...

Laws restricting teen tanning not working, researchers say. March 18, 2011— -- Ever since junior high school and throughout her teens and 20s, there was one place you could surely find Kelly ...

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 ...

A salon customer found a dead woman on a tanning bed who had visited the parlor for a two-hour session. The client made the morbid discovery in one of the tanning cubicles at the salon in Deutsch ...