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Podcast: Dr. Howard Smith Reports
Episode: Tanning Beds Risk Skin Cancer
Description: Vidcast:Â https://www.instagram.com/p/DSlHweeF4LV/Many think that a nice tan acquired at the tanning parlor makes you look healthy, but spending time under those UV lights may triple your risk of cooking up a deadly skin cancer. Dermatologists at Northwestern Medicine and the University of California-San Francisco now report this fact in the journal Science Advances after reviewing medical records from about 6,000 people and using single-cell DNA sequencing on skin biopsies from tanning-bed users and non-users.The tabulated data shows that people f...