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Want a nice tan? Just take a pill - Video

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00
Thousands of Kiwis would have spent today outside soaking up the sun. As a result, many tonight will be tending badly burnt skin and would have put themselves at serious risk of skin cancer. - read full story »
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Comments [7]

melanotan II
13 Jan 2010 8:55p.m.

Melanotan can tan your skin. Some white people that expose on sunlight having their tan, get freckles. Their skin become spotted.

Melanotan
30 Jan 2009 7:38p.m.

Wired Magazine has just published an article about the melanotan peptides:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/tan.html

Good reading.

Rosalind Hunt
26 Jan 2009 3:48p.m.

I was so excited to see this drug being used to help
sufferers of Erythropoietic Protoporphyria. My brother and I both have this condition and have never thought there might be a cure for it as it is so rare. We would love to make contact with the Melbourne dermatologist Dr George Varigos. The thought of living a normal life for us and our families is thrilling.
Ros Hunt

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