Red Flags - Skin Cancer

We Told You So

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:00:00 -0500

One of the best things about Red Flags is that it is so often right. Take the healing power of sunshine, for example. Whilst mainstream medical thinking has become increasingly hysterical about the dangers of allowing one photon to brush your skin lest a host of deadly malignant melanomas are triggered into life, Red Flags runs a story suggesting that getting a suntan is healthy.

Solar Radiation: Health Benefits And Health Risks

Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:57:53 -0400

Humans evolved with the sun. That is obvious from the variation of skin pigmentation depending on ancestral roots: skin is very dark in the tropical plains regions of Africa, brown in the tropical forests, turning to lighter values with increasing latitude in Europe and Asia.

You Are My Sunshine

Sun, 29 May 2005 04:00:00 -0400

My sister in law, who tends to believe absolutely everything she reads on medical matters, lives in terror of her children being subjected to one unshielded photon from that evil shiny ball in the sky. On trips to the seaside she rushes about the beach, cupped hands full of factor eight billion suntan cream, ready to fling herself into a fresh application frenzy at all times. For her, the sun is the equivalent of a hooded paedophile hiding at a darkened street corner, itching to harm her kids.

A Case Of Skin Cancer: Why It Is Important To Ask Questions About Possible Treatments

Fri, 28 May 2004 04:00:00 -0400

Just because a doctor is a specialist in one area of medicine, it does not mean he or she knows everything there is to know about other medical areas. So if I asked my husband, who is an obstetrician/gynecologist, a question about skin, he would answer, "I am not a dermatologist." Several years ago, my husband and I learned a lot about dermatology and what we learned might come in handy for you one day.