Indoor tanning still common in Germany

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Four in ten Germans ages 14 to 45 say they have tried indoor tanning and one in seven are current users, according to a survey out today. Germany enacted legislation banning minors from tanning salons in 2009. Yet five percent of 14- to 17-year-olds in the survey, which was done in 2011 and 2012, said they had used indoor tanning in the past year. “It’s unfortunately not surprising, because it is still a very common practice,” said Dr. Sophie J. Balk, an attending pediatrician at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York, who was not involved in the work. …