Health
What exactly does the sun do to your skin? – Sydney Morning Herald
We know we should be sun smart but what does that mean these days? What actually happens when the sun hits your skin? And is sun damage reversible?
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size
One person dies every five hours from melanoma in Australia. One person is diagnosed with the skin cancer every half-hour. And two out of three Australians can expect to be diagnosed with skin cancer by the age of 70. Yet we remain remarkably unclear and sometimes complacent about what damage the sun does to our skin, and how to protect it.
Weve got a lot of work to do, says Professor Richard Scolyer, co-medical director of Melanoma Institute…
-
General23 hours agoDonald Trump’s initial 10 per cent tariff takes effect
-
General22 hours agoJaguar Land Rover in UK pauses shipments to US
-
General20 hours agoTexas opens probe into Kellogg’s health claims, dyes
-
General18 hours agoAustralian share market set to dive as threat of US recession grows