When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow ...

Indoor tanning is associated with markedly higher mutation burdens and cancer-driving genetic changes in melanocytes taken ...

Researchers discovered that tanning beds cause widespread, mutation-laden DNA damage across almost all skin, explaining the ...

Melanoma survivors share what led to their diagnosis and how they protect their skin now. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Courtesy of Kelly McWhinney, Juanita Taylor, Dayanara Torres and ...

More striking still, the genetic damage showed up even in body areas that rarely see the sun. The findings, published today in the journal Science Advances, provide the strongest biological evidence ...

Tanning bed use is tied to almost a threefold increase in melanoma risk, and for the first time, scientists have shown how these devices cause melanoma-linked DNA damage across nearly the entire skin ...