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The ~75:1 Sunlight Trade-Off A New UK Biobank Preprint Reframes the Sunlight

Ask the Expert, Smart Tan 04.2026

For decades, public health messaging around sunlight has been simple and absolute: avoid the sun. But a longawaited new analysis suggests that message may be dangerously incomplete.

IN JANUARY 2026, a major medRxiv preprint led by Richard Weller was published using data from more than 419,000 adults in the UK Biobank. Instead of focusing narrowly on skin cancer, the researchers asked...

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