The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that as many as 60,000 people a year die from too much sun. Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) causes skin cancers, sunburn, cold sores and ages the skin.

Simple precautions like covering up when under the sun could decrease deaths

The World Health Organization says up to 60,000 people a year die from too much exposure to the sun, primarily from skin cancer.

Malignant melanomas account for 48,000 deaths each year, while 12,000 people die from other kinds of skin cancer

An herbal pill will now available to help ease sunburn and help the body fight against skin cancer.

Heliocare has been available in Europe for years but this summer is the first time the pill will be available in major drug stores in the United States

Dermatologists with After Transplantation-Reduce Incidence of Skin Cancer (AT-RISC) Alliance are presenting a series of lectures at the World Transplant Congress in Boston, to educate the physicians, nurses and patients to be aware of the risk of cancers associated with transplants. They warn that organ transplant recipients have a much higher than average risk of developing an aggressive form of skin cancer, called squamous cell carcinoma.

Dr. Clark C. Otley, chairman of the Division of Dermatologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and one of the founders of the International Transplant-Skin Cancer Collaborative, which is joining the International Transplant Nurses Society and the Transplant Recipients International Organization to launch the AT-RISC Initiative, said, "This is a very bad problem that's going to get worse as more patients undergo transplant surgery and survive

The European Commission on Thursday warned the young and fair skinned tan lovers about the dangers of tanning beds, which are said to increase the risk of developing skin cancer. The commission also said that individuals under 18 years of age and those with freckles, moles, and a family history of melanoma were at increased risk of getting the cancer.

The European Union's executive arm said its scientific committee on consumer products concluded that using ultraviolet radiation devices like sunbeds, tanning lamps etc. are likely to increase the risk of malignant melanoma, a skin cancer