Warning: Beauty may come at a hidden health cost for African-Americans
When Teni Adewumi was growing up, she, like many of her family members and friends, spent countless hours in hair salons without ever thinking about the potential side effects of the harsh chemicals being used on their hair.  Now a Ph.D. student in environmental health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Adewumi has sounded a warning to both patrons and professionals that beauty may come at a hidden cost to their health.    Through the nationwide Occupational Health Internship Program and the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health (UCLA-LOSH) program, Adewumi began working last summer with the Sou...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 14, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Would-Be Tanners Search for a Salon and Get a SurpriseWould-Be Tanners Search for a Salon and Get a Surprise
Seekers of tanning beds were presented with online messages about skin cancer before they even got close to lying down. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news

Nurse who used sunbeds for up to 30 minutes a DAY in her father's tanning salon now has inoperable skin cancer aged 43
Sarah Swindells, 43, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was stunned to be told a lump on her groin she believed to be a hernia was a stage 4 melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pigtails & Crewcuts To Open Next Location in Rogers
Pigtails & Crewcuts, a child-friendly salon, plans to open its third Arkansas location in early 2016, this time in Rogers. P&C has locations in Fayetteville and Little Rock. The Rogers location will be next to Clothes Mentor in the shopping center at 4200 W. Green Acres Road. Laura Coleman opened the Fayetteville store in April 2011. She will be the owner of the Rogers franchise as well.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - October 5, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Pilot Program Will Gauge Air Quality in New York Nail Salons
The program, which will use sensors embedded in desk lamps, is the latest in a series of initiatives by the city and state to protect salon workers from dangerous work conditions and labor abuses.
Source: NYT Health - September 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: BENJAMIN MUELLER Tags: New York City Lighting Science Group Corporation LSCG Other OTC Regulation and Deregulation of Industry Clinton Global Initiative James, Letitia Nails (Body Part) Beauty Salons Source Type: news

Meet The 2015 MacArthur Fellows
Once a year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announces its roster of MacArthur Fellows, a designation frequently referred to as the "Genius Grant." The fellowship bestows upon its recipients a $625,000 prize, along with an accolade that manages to celebrate innovative minds across fields, from science to poetry to painting, and just about everything in between.  This year, the list of MacArthur Fellows ranges from a celebrated writer to an environmental advocate to an inorganic chemist, varying in age from 33 to 72 years old. In total, there are 15 men and nine women represented. The r...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Why a blast of exercise WON'T offset that extra glass of wine - in fact, experts say it could do more harm than good
Lee Cuggy, 40, a beauty salon owner from Neath, is proud of her toned upper arms - but isn't about to give up her pinot grigio for them. She believes that exercise makes up for an extra glass of wine.
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

ICYMI: Poetry In Solitary Confinement And The Naturopath Whistleblower
ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week. This week, we're reading up on situations that aren't always what they seem. We spent time with the beautiful profile of a prison inmate-cum-poet, written by one of our colleagues, and with the story of a naturopath who became disillusioned with her profession after discovering disturbing practices by her peers. And, on a lighter note, we fell in love with a preview of British composer Max Richter's soothing eight-hour piece, entitled "Sleep," an album designed to help its adult listeners do just that. Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read, lis...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

On Balding and Balance
Fifteen parts of my body are dysfunctional or diseased. Chief among them are Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (formerly called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) -- which frequently leaves me so wasted by the end of the day, it's hard for me to summon the energy to brush my teeth -- as well as an atypical form of low blood pressure and hypoglycemia, resulting in intermittent lightheadedness. Some of these issues require daily medication. Others demand ongoing management and the rest, at a minimum, necessitate mindfulness. I've lived with many of these conditions for decades, and I'm fairly adept at managing them. But in my fan...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Executive Committee Minutes, June 30, 2015
Participants:  Dave deBronkart, Nick Dawson, Nancy Finn, Sarah Krug Danny Sands, Joshua Seidman, Jon Wald, Peggy Zuckerman Board Minutes Approved Executive Committee News Nancy Finn is speaking at  a symposium at Harvard Medical School on Digital Communication Technology and the Empowered Patient on July 21. Peggy Zuckerman is involved in planning for the Society for Diagnosis in Medicine 8th International Summit to be held in Washington, DC, September 26, and 27. Value Proposition  The Sub-Committee is working on refining the SPM value proposition for different audiences. Participation in Connected Health and other ...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - July 16, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Nancy Finn Tags: Executive Minutes News Source Type: news

Benefits, and Some Resistance, as New York Cracks Down on Nail Salon Abuses
Lunch breaks, higher pay and protective equipment are some of the improvements manicurists have seen two months after an investigation by The New York Times.
Source: NYT - July 16, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: SARAH MASLIN NIR Tags: Regulation and Deregulation of Industry Manhattan (NYC) New York Times Long Island (NY) Nails (Body Part) Protective Clothing and Gear Beauty Salons Wages and Salaries Source Type: news

What It's Like When Alcohol Takes Over Your Life -- And Steals Your Memories
There are some crucial details missing from Sarah Hepola's new memoir, Blackout -- but that's the whole point. In her book, released in June, the author -- who edits personal essays for Salon.com -- discusses her long, both complicated and sometimes devastatingly simple relationship with alcohol. It started early (she first stole sips of beer at age 7), and blazed a destructive path through several decades of her life. The book is an intimate education, not only in her personal history, but also about the dangers of alcohol-induced blackouts, or "periods of memory loss for events that transpired while a person was drinki...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Drinking by 11, alcoholic by 20, sober by 35: one woman's story
As new research shows that 43 per cent of women want to drink less, one woman reveals how she became an alcoholic by 20 - and how she finally kicked the habit
Source: Telegraph Health - June 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: salon dallas drinking alcoholism sober telegraph scarlett russell stella alcoholic health new york going sober women's health quitting drinking stella magazine sarah hepola Source Type: news

High-Risk Tanners Are More Likely To Get Their Fix Outside The Salon
By: Agata Blaszczak-Boxe Published: June 24, 2015 10:57am ET on LiveScience. People who go tanning at gyms or beauty shops may have riskier tanning habits than those who go to tanning salons, new research finds. In the study, researchers found that the total number of indoor tanning sessions over women's lifetime was twice as high among women who had ever tanned at an indoor nonsalon location than among those who had tanned indoors but only at tanning salons. Moreover, the women in the study who were tanning at a location other than a tanning salon were more likely to tan all year round than those who went only to tanning...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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