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Share on PinterestExperts say you should wear sunscreen whenever you expose yourself to the sun. BARTON/Getty ImagesA new survey reports that a vast majority of people believe that suntans are healthy.Experts say tanning is the body’s reaction to DNA damage caused by the sun.They say overexposure to the sun can lead to skin damage as well as skin cancer.They recommend wearing sunscreen and protective clothing, including a hat, when outside.A large majority of Europeans — and people elsewhere in the world — apparently believe that a suntan is attractive and healthy.The former is perhaps arguable, but dermatologists say the latter is dead wrong.Survey results presented at the 31st European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Congress this week found that 8 in 10 Europeans say that tann...

Sex is one of life’s greatest pleasures and yet, in 2019, NATSAL (National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles), reported that sexual frequency was in decline. Answers surrounding why we aren’t having as much sex are more complicated than just what the data is telling us. So perhaps we need to pose a new question. Should we be treating this trend as a public health concern? And, what could we learn about our health if we did?You’d be forgiven for thinking that the world of late currently resembles something of a Margaret Atwood dystopia. Across the globe, we’ve been dished out once-in-a-lifetime event after once-in-a-lifetime event. There's an ongoing climate crisis making predictions of certain doom a hot, sticky reality; the ever-present COVID-19 pandemic, on top of 14 years o...

LGBTQ activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of City Hall in New York, NY on October 24, 2018. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images LGBTQ activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of City Hall in New York, NY on October 24, 2018. ...

(Blackwood, NJ) – After the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control endorsed the recommendation for all Americans ages 12 and older to receive Omicron specific booster shots, the Camden County Health Hub will begin administering doses tomorrow.   New Jersey has received allocations of both Pfizer and Moderna bivalent boosters, which are being delivered to vaccine providers. These boosters will target both the original COVID-19 strain as well as the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants. Omicron is currently causing most of the COVID-19 cases in the country and are predicted to circulate this fall and winter as well, according to the FDA. “This announcement comes at a critical time a...

Lifespan Health Thread Directors Samar Hegazy, MD, PhDTeaching Assistant Professor, Medical Education Facilitator Pathology Core Discipline LeadCourse Director, Literature Reviews in PathologyDepartment of Biomedical and Translational SciencesLIFESPAN HEALTH THREAD CO-DIRECTOR Contact Carle Illinois College of MedicineMedical Sciences Building506 S. Mathews Ave. Room 239Urbana, IL 61801217.333.0979 | hegazy@illinois.edumedicine.illinois.edu/ Jaya G. Yodh, PhDTeaching Associate Professor, Medical Education Facilitator Biochemistry Core Discipline LeadLead Course Director, Foundations: Molecules to PopulationsCo-Course Director, Phase 1 Synthesis and SummaryDepartment of Biomedical and Translational SciencesLIFESPAN HEALTH THREAD CO-DIRECTOR Contact Carle Illinois ...