by PediaBlog | Jul 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
* This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on July 13, 2017. Protection From Summer Sun Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. Basal cell and squamous cell cancers remain close to their origin and don’t...
by PediaBlog | Jul 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. Basal cell and squamous cell cancers remain close to their origin and don’t typically spread to other organs. These two types of nonmelanoma skin cancers are more common than melanoma, a...
by PediaBlog | Jun 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
If I were to ask you to name five organs in the human body, which ones would you choose? Brain, heart, kidney, liver, spleen might be the first to spring to mind. Picking five more might prove to be more difficult. Let’s go endocrine: Thyroid, parathyroid,...
by PediaBlog | May 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
With summer officially here and more warm, sunny days ahead, now is a good time to look back at a previous PediaBlog post and review which sunscreens are best to use for children: The Environmental Working Group’s “Sun Safety Campaign” is a...
by PediaBlog | Aug 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
How the sun sees you from Thomas Leveritt on YouTube: We showed people what they looked like in ultraviolet, & wondered aloud if they wanted to put on some damn sunscreen already. Music: ‘Summer in the City – Starcadian remix’ by Freedom Fry....