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Sun safety is not just for beach holidays. Checking the UV index and building small habits into your day can help protect your skin.
When choosing a sunscreen, there are four non-negotiables.
Beach cabanas serve a valid purpose. But make sure you use them carefully and responsibly, so everyone’s day at the beach is safe and enjoyable.
Being severely sunburnt as a child more than doubles the chance of developing future skin cancer but less than half of primary schools questioned in new research have a sun safety policy.
A tattoo can be a large investment in time, money and pain. Here’s how to look after yours this summer.
Early products focused on tanning. Others roasted you like a chicken. Which of these claims can you remember?
Move over beach umbrellas, it’s the summer of the beach cabana. But these popular sun shelters may not protect you as much as you think.
Sunscreen is one of the most important ways to protect yourself from skin cancer – but to be reliable, it has to be tested on brave volunteers.
If you’ve had a skin cancer check lately, you might have been told to consider adding a daily vitamin B3 pill to your skin safety regime.
The UV index measures how much UV radiation is around and how much damage it’s likely to do to your skin.
In Asian countries, many people wield umbrellas to protect them from the sun. American women used to as well – but then stopped.
Dog skin is exactly the same as yours and mine! It changes colour depending on how much light it’s exposed to.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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Director Radiation Research and Advice, Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Professor in Chemistry, School of Science (Applied Chemistry & Environmental Science), RMIT University
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Conjoint Senior Lecturer, Medicine, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer Princess Alexandra Hospital Southside Clinical Unit and Casual Research Assistant, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow in Medico-Legal History, Australian National University
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Professor of Dermatology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of History, Texas A&M University
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Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer – Small Animal Internal Medicine, The University of Queensland
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NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Ophthamology School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Officer in Health Data Science, Swansea University