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Percentage of young women aged 18-64 who tanned indoors in the previous 12 months, compared with about 6% of men, according to a study of more than 2,800 people. Only 13% of women and 4% of men said they thought avoiding tanning beds could reduce their risk of skin cancer. [via Archives of Dermatology]
Shift work may be unavoidable, but a new study suggests that it could wreak havoc with hormones that increase women’s risk of cancer.
Getting healthy doesn’t mean having to overhaul your entire lifestyle.
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
