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Study co-author Hunter Shane of the University of California, San Francisco says younger indoor tanners also had more DNA damage in their skin cells than people twice their age.
The findings appear in the journal Science Advances.
The study found the more often people visited the tanning bed, the higher the risk.
Those with 10 to 50 visits had twice the risk of melanoma.
If they had over 200 visits, their risk was more than eight times as high.
Study co-author Hunter Shane of the University of California, San Francisco says younger indoor tanners also had more DNA damage in their skin cells than people twice their age.
The findings appear in the journal Science Advances.
And so what this means is that the same drink that previously maybe felt just fine now leads to a higher blood alcohol level.
You feel the effects for longer.
Hepatitis B is a virus that attacks the liver.
The disease can lead to liver cancer, cirrhosis, and death.
And the risks are much higher for people infected as infants.
began universally vaccinating newborns in 1991, some 18,000 children each year became infected before age 10.
About half were infected by their mothers at birth.
The other half got it from somewhere else.
The virus is found in blood and other bodily fluids, and it can live on surfaces for up to a week.