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Why I’m Getting Naked for Skin Health 

Guest blog post by Ian Michael Crumm, Celebrity Esthetician, Podcast Host, Key Opinion Leader, Melanoma Advocate and 2025 #GetNaked Spokesperson: Some moments stick with yo...

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May 14, 2012

The MRF Applauds New Skin Cancer Research Bill

On May 10, the MRF commended United States Representative Brian Bilbray from California's 50th Congressional District on his introduction of the Melanoma Research Act o...

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May 8, 2012

Statement from Timothy Turnham Regarding U.S. Prev...

Statement from Timothy Turnham, Executive Director, Melanoma Research Foundation Regarding U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations on Preventing Skin Cancer For...

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May 8, 2012

Avvo and the MRF Team Up to Promote Skin Cancer Aw...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                          ...

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May 4, 2012

Teaching Our Kids Right From Wrong

Nobody has ever accused me of being at a loss for words. Ever. But I got awfully close to speechless when I saw the story of a New Jersey mom arrested for putting her daugh...

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March 28, 2012

Where Can You Find Idaho’s State Senate on Twitt...

  In a reversal of what has become something of a national trend, the Idaho State Senate rejected a bill passed by the House that would have prohibited children under ...

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March 9, 2012

Brian Williams and Hope

  The online community for melanoma patients has been abuzz today about a report by Brian Williams on a patient who had a remarkable experience with melanoma. She was ...

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February 21, 2012

EU Approves Zelboraf

The MRF is delighted to learn that Zelboraf (vemurafenib) has been approved in the European Union for the treatment of adult patients with BRAF V600 mutation-positive metas...

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February 14, 2012

Mom & Pop’s Selling Cancer

  The recent Congressional report on the way tanning salons market to teenagers is disturbing on a number of levels, though not particularly surprising.  This is,...

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February 8, 2012

Fighting Dirty

I read the report from Congress’ House Energy and Commerce Committee with great interest.  They used interns to call 300 tanning salons—at least 3 in each ...

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February 1, 2012

Statement from Timothy Turnham, Executive Director...

For Immediate Release: February 1, 2012   Contact: Berna Diehl Jones Public Affairs (202) 591-4045 Berna@jpa.com   Statement from Timothy Turnham, Executive Direc...

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January 13, 2012

New Awareness Videos Share the Message about Melan...

The Melanoma Research Foundation was excited to learn that members of the Western University of Health Sciences Dermatology Interest Group Association recently created two ...

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January 9, 2012

The Question

  I have been around hospitals, doctors, and life-threatening illnesses for a large portion of my life, so I was recently taken aback to learn that something I had hea...

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