Tanning beds promise a quick glow, but a new study says the real cost is written deep into your skin. Researchers have found that young indoor tanners carry genetic damage in their skin cells that ...

Dermatologists and a rhinologist shed light on some of the claims social media influencers are making about this alternative tanning method — and why the product involved is definitely one to avoid.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. Basking in the sun is a joyful past-time for many, even to those ...

Tanning beds triple the risk of the deadliest form of skin cancer, warns new research. The study is the first to show how solariums mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight. Using ...

(Ben Schamisso/NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY-UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM/AFP) When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow like a ...

Hop onto TikTok and you'll find lots of videos of young people — mostly women — fake baking under the glowing UV lights of a tanning bed. Seattle dermatologist Heather Rogers says this is an alarming ...

In a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, researchers provided high-resolution molecular evidence supporting a link between indoor tanning and an increased risk of melanoma. The ...

Tanning bed users are known to have a higher risk of skin cancer, but for the first time researchers have found that young indoor tanners undergo genetic changes that can lead to more mutations in ...

Heidi Tarr, who was diagnosed with melanoma years after regularly using a tanning bed, is examined by dermatologist Pedram Gerami People who use tanning beds are three times more at risk of getting ...